Word: prospect
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...heights. "Let him off the hook now," says a White House aide, "and sooner or later he will be back, and we will be too -- back to square one. Drag this out, and maybe, just maybe, Iraqis will become so fed up that they'll balk at the prospect of another long war and take out the fellow who can't seem to live without another one to fight...
Bizarre as it may seem to some Westerners, the prospect of Saddam's emerging as a populist idol is not farfetched. In a region rife with dissolute and spendthrift rulers, he is admired for his austere and disciplined habits. "He has no palaces, no Swiss bank accounts," says Major General Yusuf Kawash, a retired member of the Jordanian army. Saddam has positioned himself as an avenging Robin Hood, intent upon stealing the wealth of the affluent but uncaring gulf states and redistributing it to the impoverished Arab masses. Jordan's Hussein reinforced that reasoning early last week, when he said...
...prospect of a united Germany may be fueling the R.A.F.'s latest violence. A five-page letter to the press following the attack on Neusel decried the emergence of a "greater Germany pursuing the same goals and imperial plans as Nazi Fascism." The apparent anti-unification campaign follows the arrests of 10 R.A.F. operatives in East Germany in June. Three were released on legal technicalities, but six have been handed over to West German authorities, and one is in an East German prison. At a press conference in East Berlin, Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel confirmed that well- known terrorists...
...prospect of making us less competitive," said John Gould, president of Associated Industries of Massachusetts...
While a repeat of the Arab oil embargo of 1973 seems a distant prospect, Saddam's sudden pre-eminence within OPEC does make it conceivable. The Iraqi despot has made clear that he believes oil should be used as a weapon in the Arab fight against Israel and its supporters, notably the U.S. If Saddam were gradually able to absorb Kuwait -- and Baghdad has long claimed, without any historical basis, that the country should rightfully be part of Iraq -- he would command an additional 10.3% of the world's proven oil reserves, making his country the unrivaled...