Word: gulf
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...Road to Baghdad The Clinton administration begins broadcasting its attack-Iraq show with a televised address and a global town hall meeting via satellite. Can it soothe the world's anxieties? Full Story Weapons Special: Our forces in the Gulf Iraq Special: Back to the Brink? Poll: Bombs Away...
...Weapons Special: Our forces in the Gulf Iraq Special: Back to the Brink? Poll: Bombs Away? MONEY Daily: Would a Strike Affect the Market...
...feel singularly unsatisfying. The U.S. would be lucky if it could destroy some of Iraq's lethal weaponry while keeping the international coalition signed on to continued sanctions. But Saddam and all the problems Iraq raises would still be with us. "We face a new cold war in the gulf," says Middle East expert Anthony Cordesman. The U.S. can't end its confrontation with Saddam by force, nor can it withdraw, nor can it ignore the threat. As long as he endures, the U.S. is in the gulf to stay...
Sometimes there can be a wide gulf between the two. In Australia, for example, El Nino caused extremely dry conditions that for a while last year had farmers contemplating suicide. But as it turns out, some rain did fall--just in time to rescue the wheat harvest from disaster. Does that mean the drought predictions were wrong? Not at all, says Nicholas Graham, a climate modeler at the University of California at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Think of what El Nino does as the equivalent of rigging a roulette wheel so that it comes up black...
Something In the Air As the bombers mass in the Gulf, support at home is crumbling. Congress is queasy; even two former CIA directors are speaking out against a strike. Full Story Weapons special: Our forces in the Gulf Iraq Special: Back to the Brink...