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Israeli intelligence concedes that it cannot be absolutely certain of detecting Iraqi missile preparations in advance. As a precaution, civil defense officials are bracing for a worst-case scenario in which 20 to 30 missiles hit the populated coastal region, causing thousands of casualties, before Israel can cripple Saddam's war machine...
...Christmas and perhaps much sooner. That is the latest estimate from Washington and abroad. Whether the economic embargo could ever force Saddam Hussein to retreat from Kuwait may never be known. "Our worst-case scenario," says an Arab diplomat involved in the allies' deliberations, has Saddam acceding to Bush's public demands. But the alliance's true objective has moved beyond restoring the status quo ante to the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological warfare capacities, a goal almost no one believes can be achieved through negotiation. Hence "the logic of war," to borrow Francois Mitterrand's phrase...
Envisioning a Republican nirvana, Dole teasedher audience with the vision of aRepublican-controlled Congress working with aRepublican Administration in forwarding aRepublican agenda. She equated a vote forRepublican Senatorial hopeful Jim Rappaport with avote for this scenario...
Unfortunately, this scenario--which presumes that Harvard's divestment would represent a genuine sanction, by no means a certain conclusion--ignores or downplays serious threats to "innocent bystanders," namely Blacks in South Africa and neighboring states. Even worse, the chances that economic sanctions will actually produce a peaceful resolution to the tragic situation in South Africa are almost...
Should it come to war, however, American analysts see signs that the Iraqi dictator is preparing a three-part scenario for victory. To Western ears it sounds more like a script for Gotterdammerung: most of Iraq would undoubtedly be bombed into flaming ruins. But the U.S. and the West might well suffer horrifying consequences too: economic ruin brought on by superexpensive oil, biological as well as chemical-warfare attacks on troops and civilians, and terrorist outrages on a scale and of a deadliness never seen before...