Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though many major dailies declined to name the official, countless smaller papers ran the Anderson-Van Atta column. Among them was Pennsylvania's Harrisburg Patriot, from which the item was in turn excerpted for a Pentagon news summary distributed to 10,000 employees. Other dailies covered the outing debate. The Detroit News named the official twice in news stories; the New York Daily News identified him in a gossip column. All four TV news networks decided not to use the official's name, but secondary outlets used it, including cable channel CNBC, a corporate sibling of NBC piped into nearly...
...months ago, the world watched as Iraqi Scuds hurtled down on Israeli and Saudi Arabian cities. American Patriot antiballistic missiles foiled many of those strikes. Now a standard feature on the TV evening news is the cat-and- mouse game that Saddam Hussein is playing with international inspectors looking for evidence of his Manhattan Project...
...given them little reassurance. At best, he is a romantic patriot in the 19th century tradition. "We'll achieve freedom by fighting," he said when I visited him last year. "I expect death for myself and civil war for my country...
High-tech businesses were attracted decades ago to Cape Canaveral, 40 miles away, and they are still coming. Today they are creating jobs in Orlando at a rate three times the national average. Patriot missiles, infrared sights for night warfare and other inventions of the Star Wars era are assembled only a few miles from the site where tourists board fantasy rocket rides based on George Lucas' Star Wars. Disney World has the Space Mountain roller coaster; Orlando has FreeFlight Zephyrhills, a firm that is experimenting with wind- tunnel technology to simulate a skydiving experience on the ground. Disney...
Countries expressing an interest in Patriot missiles before the outbreak of war in the Gulf included Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, United Arab Emirates, South Korea and the United Kingdom, spokespersons for the company said...