Word: raids
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Kirkpatrick's hesitancy in the Security Council reflected the ambivalent approach of the Reagan Administration toward the problem of censuring Israel for the bombing raid on Iraq's Tammuz nuclear reactor. Eloquently recalling the "strength of U.S. ties and commitment to Israel and the warmth of our feelings," Kirkpatrick admitted that the draft was "not a perfect resolution." But she added that Washington had been "shocked" by the Israelis' launching a raid before peaceful approaches had been exhausted. Replied Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum: "Israel unreservedly rejects the biased and one-sided resolution just adopted by the council...
...Kirkpatrick and Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi during three days of intense negotiations. Iraq had wanted to include a call for sanctions against Israel, but the U.S. made it clear that it would use its veto if they were mentioned. Instead, the approved resolution "strongly condemns" Israel for its raid on the reactor and urges it to pay damages to Iraq, which was "entitled to appropriate redress for the destruction it has suffered." There is nothing that could compel Israel to make such restitution, however, and Blum had already told the council that his government would not pay Iraq...
...aftermath of the Israeli raid, U.S. policy became a high-wire act aimed on the one hand at preserving the U.S. position with moderate Arab countries and on the other hand at demonstrating both displeasure with and support for Israel. "Making the best we could of a terrible situation," as a senior White House official put it, Washington agreed to the strong language in the U.N. resolution to placate Arab anger. Said the official: "We worked very, very hard on the wording of this resolution in order to maintain a dialogue and our credibility with the moderate Arabs. We also...
...Stephen Mindich apparently decided long ago he wanted to put out the only alternative paper published in Boston. He succeeded, and now readers will get an unrelieved diet of his inanities (like the reprinted editorials from the New York Post that were the paper's comments on the Iraqi raid), along with some good writing by the more talented members of the regular staff. The richer Phoenix has done the same political fades as the Realp, but their bankroll has allowed them to keep the format much the same as the old days, with longer and more personal pieces. Want...
...where Iraqi technicians could learn the techniques of handling radioactive materials, including theoretically, how to separate tiny amounts of plutonium from spent uranium fuel. Because plutonium can be used to make nuclear weapons its possible production at the Tammuz site was central to the Israelis justification for the raid. The Iraqi-French contract required delivery of 70 kg of 93% enriched U-235 a grade and amount of uranium well suited for making nuclear weapons. In addition the 70-MW Tammuz reactor was 14 times as powerful as most research reactors, and Israeli physicists contend it could have been modified...