Word: lobs
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...Ideally, the U.S. would like to exact two concessions from Sharon: a commitment to ease the Israeli army's occupation of the West Bank, and a tacit assurance that Israel will not retaliate against Iraq should Saddam Hussein, faced with imminent military defeat, lob Scuds into Israeli cities - as he did 39 times during the Gulf War. In so doing, the U.S. hopes to allay the prewar jitters of Arab leaders, who fear that an Israeli attack on Iraq could inflame their own populations, destabilize their regimes and perhaps draw them into a wider...
...LOB: H 7, P 5. 2B: H Whitton, Williamson, Cooley. RBI: H Whitton 1, Koppel 1, Wantanabe 1, Sabin 2, Williamson 1, Cooley 1. P Dilts 1. Pitchers: H Brotemarkle W 8-4 (7 IP, 5 K, BB 0) , P Borgstadt. L 8-16 (6 IP, 3 K, 3 BB). Attendance...
...LOB: H 7, P 3. HR: H Whitton 3. RBI: H Whitton 5, Williamson 2, Cooley 1. Pitchers: H Guy W 6-2 (5 IP, 1 k, 0 BB), Sabin (1 IP, 0 k, 0 BB), P Ranta L 3-4 (5 IP, 1 k, 3 BB). Ranta faced 1 hitter in the sixth. Attendance...
...about women's rights, is seeking to abolish the Pakistani tradition of condemning to death women who commit adultery. DIED. LARRY COSTELLO, 70, a five-time All-Star guard for the Philadelphia 76ers and former Milwaukee Bucks coach; in Fort Myers, Florida. Costello, known as among the last to lob the two-handed set shot, clinched NBA titles alongside Wilt Chamberlain in 1967 and when coaching the Bucks in 1971. DIED. ASHOK KUMAR, 90, Indian screen legend who dazzled audiences in more than 250 films and won Indian cinema's highest honor, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, in 1989; in Bombay...
...because its motivation is religious rather than nationalistic, it can recruit anywhere from the disaffected among the world's 1 billion Muslims. That's why top-quality surveillance and policing are as much a part of the fight against terrorism as anything armies might do. You can't lob a cruise missile at Delray Beach, Fla., or dispatch a Delta Force squad to Fort Lee, N.J.--though both towns seem to have been home, at least for a while, to some of those who hijacked the planes last week...