Word: scud
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Rushed to Israel to condemn Scud attacks and turned up last week in the Soviet Union to lambaste Mikhail Gorbachev for the Baltic crackdown...
Star Wars. The Strategic Defense Initiative, designed to detect and intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles in outer space, was moribund until Iraq unleashed its Scud missiles. The Patriot changed all that, even though it is based on a technology that was developed long before SDI got to the drawing board. Still, SDI backers argue that the success of the Patriot teaches a significant lesson about the need to prepare against ICBMs. "All you'd have to do is watch the Scud missile battles over Tel Aviv and Riyadh," says Cheney, "to have a sense of the extent to which ballistic-missile...
More Patriots are not the answer. Despite its gee-whiz exploits in the gulf, the Patriot flies at only three times the speed of sound and covers only a narrow swath of real estate. It has no trouble dealing with the unsophisticated Scud, a Mach 4 weapon that has proved to be the Edsel of missiles. An ICBM warhead, on the other hand, enters the atmosphere at 15 times the speed of sound. A Patriot could scarcely get off its launcher before an ICBM did its damage...
...positions. The Iraqis had planned to set fire to the oil when allied troops tried to cross; the napalm was apparently intended to burn it off prematurely so that the fires would be out when the coalition troops arrived. The Iraqis, in a final nose-thumbing gesture, lobbed more Scud missiles at Israel only minutes before the deadline...
Everything about Israel provokes the greatest curiosity. During a recent dinner in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, a Saudi and a Kuwaiti, both officials, spoke admiringly of Jerusalem's restraint in the face of Iraq's Scud attacks and discussed visiting Israel. "I want to fly El Al," said the Saudi. "That's nothing," said the Kuwaiti. "I want to take the QE2's Mediterranean cruise, the one that stops in Haifa for a week." "You're joking," said the Saudi. "No, I'm serious," replied the Kuwaiti. "Okay," the Saudi shot back, "I'll join...