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Although Iraq agreed last April to relinquish any nuclear, chemical, biological or ballistic weapons in its possession as a condition for a cease- fire in the Persian Gulf war, it probably never envisioned the scene that took place in the mountains north of Baghdad last week. While United Nations experts looked on, Iraqi workers slit holes in the barrels of five "superguns" that Baghdad could have used to hurl shells at neighbors 400 miles away...
Nothing in recent American life--not Watergate, not Iran-contra, not the debate on the Persian Gulf War--has served to reveal more clearly than the Thomas episode the fragility of the American social experiment. Some will say, as they say at the close of every political crisis, "When all is said and done, the system worked, the people were heard and justice was done...
...Bush Administration insists that the dwindling of the Soviet threat is being at least partly offset by a rising danger of more regional wars like the Persian Gulf conflict, fought against countries that are rapidly acquiring tanks, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons and other modern arms. Thus, it contends, the fairly drastic cuts it already has scheduled are the most that can be prudently made. That line might offset the Democrats' attack well enough to keep the odds heavily in favor of Bush's re-election. But even that will not end the debate -- far from it. The serious questions about...
...DEMOCRAT--at least one whose opposition to the Persian Gulf war is not on record--can probably put a few dents into Bush's foreign policy armor...
Tens of thousands of Soviet Jews have canceled or postponed their departure. Of the 300,000 expected to emigrate this year, only 112,000 have already done so. One reason is Saddam Hussein's missile war against Israel during the Persian Gulf conflict. But beyond that, these Soviet Jews heard from friends and relatives in Israel of the desperate housing and job shortages, the families doubled up in hotel rooms and mobile-home camps. Soviet engineers, doctors and musicians find themselves working as janitors, construction workers and gas-station attendants in Israel; roughly 40% are unemployed, compared with...