Word: pinpricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dozens of pinprick-size containers are each filled with about 25 nanoliters of liquid, gel or solid and covered with a thin gold film. The chip is then immersed in a liquid containing low concentrations of chloride ions (like those found in human bodily fluids...
...force. "This is a long-term project," said Secretary Cohen, and could first involve more pressure. "It might be a tightening of further sanctions," Cohen said. He called military action "a last option," but if it is needed, "you can be reasonably assured it will not be a pinprick." "No more pinpricks," echoed Marine General Anthony Zinni, who heads the U.S. Central Command in the gulf. The things that matter most to Saddam, Zinni suggested, are his Republican Guard forces and his command and control systems. During recent talks with leaders in the region, he said, they told...
...cruise and air-to-air missiles. "This sends an unambiguous message that the power is here should the U.N. want to use it," says the commanding officer of the Nimitz, Captain Isaac Richardson. Clinton and his commanders have learned that Saddam isn't bothered by the kind of "pinprick" strikes the U.S. lobbed at Iraq in 1993 and 1996. This time, the idea is "to take a page out of Colin Powell's book and make sure that we really do have the capability to do a decisive job," says Robert Pelletreau, who served as Assistant Secretary of State...
...Iraq, and Russia was reluctant to tighten economic sanctions. If the Security Council did not act against Saddam, the U.S. could attack by itself, blasting Iraq with cruise missiles again to avoid getting pilots killed or captured. But that kind of attack could turn out to be another pinprick, or result in civilian casualties that would infuriate U.S. allies and the Arab world...
This time, they said, they would put an end to vacillation and to pinprick bombing. "What we must do today," Prime Minister John Major told the 16-nation emergency conference on Bosnia in London last week, "is spell out in unmistakable terms the consequences of further attacks" by Bosnian Serbs on U.N.-declared "safe areas." "We must mean what we say and be determined to carry out what...