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...than pundits imagine. A war against Iraq would not be like attacking Grenada or Panama. It would almost certainly involve hundreds of thousands of people dying, soldiers and civilians alike. Generals like to talk of "surgical strikes," but surgical strikes usually hit the wrong targets -- like the misguided air raid on Libya in 1986 that wrecked the French embassy and killed Colonel Gaddafi's daughter...
That offers little comfort to Israeli citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...
...organized opposition in Iraq and no dissident movement to speak of. Saddam has seen to that by killing or imprisoning all foes, real or imagined. According to British diplomats, he had some 50 senior military officers, including several generals, shot when they balked at his plans to raid Kuwait...
...Indians initiated the blockade to force the town of Oka to drop plans to expand a golf course onto land the Mohawks consider sacred property. An aborted police raid last month to break the boycott ended in the fatal shooting of an officer...
...peace working together than apart. As recently as a year ago, such an incursion in the Middle East would probably have caused a fearsome rift between the superpowers. But in the summer of 1990, the Iraqi blitz prompted Washington and Moscow to act in stunning unanimity, each abhorring the raid and demanding, in an unprecedented joint statement, that the invaders retreat. That position was also endorsed by the United Nations Security Council. While all parties were clearly loath to take on the mightiest army in the Arab world -- a force of 1 million fighting men -- the rare convergence of views...