Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Contrary to rumors before the meeting, the Americans did not try to scare Saddam by presenting intelligence reports on his recent movements. The U.S. has such information, collected mainly through electronic intercepts. Because Saddam moves around so much, however, there are periods when Washington is not certain of his whereabouts. But if war breaks out and Saddam is targeted, one American official asserted, the U.S. could attack each of the several locations where he is likely...
...press conference in Geneva highlighted the major point of disagreement between the United States and Iraq: the Palestinian situation. Secretary of State James Baker ruled out explicitly "linking" a solution to the Gulf Crisis with a discussion of the Israeli occupation. His strategy is to use military means to scare Iraq into complying with U.N. resolutions...
...should come as no surprise to anyone who has been tracking the progress of American deployment in the gulf. That he said it, however, was a shocker. Waller's indiscretion signaled to Saddam that the Rubicon may not be crossed on Jan. 15, thereby undercutting Washington's effort to scare him out of Kuwait without a fight...
...sticking single-mindedly to the warpath, the Bush Administration hopes to scare Saddam into accepting its terms for Iraq's capitulation. But the White House knows that Saddam gets much of his news from CNN. He hears the loud and cacophonous tones of dissension emanating from Congress, and they tell him that the American will to fight for the sake of Kuwait is less firm than the Administration wants him to think. Baker acknowledged that point last week, admonishing the House Foreign Relations Committee, "When you say, 'Wait, wait, wait, wait,' that undercuts a strategy that is showing every possibility...
...purchase is a way of ensuring an immensely valuable supply of so-called software: the movies, records and films that can be played on the machines Matsushita sells. Says Donald Richie, a leading arts critic and longtime resident of Japan: "There's no reason for a Yellow Peril scare. The Japanese just want to milk the cows and pull in the profits that they know these studios create." Matsushita hopes to put half a century's worth of MCA creative output into new CDs, videotapes, laser discs and other formats. Besides producing movies and TV shows, MCA makes records...