Word: scud
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Whoever speaks for the Palestinians will find Israel a prickly interlocutor. The target of dozens of unprovoked Scud attacks, the Israelis will be in no mood to compromise and may use Saddam's continued leadership as yet another excuse to avoid negotiations. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir put it bluntly last week: "There can be no peace in the region so long as Saddam Hussein remains in power." But Shamir has yet to face the fact that, regardless of Saddam's personal fate, the Middle East will never achieve a lasting peace until Israelis and Palestinians are ready to sit down...
...comes home today with these SCUD attacks," he said, adding that the Iraqi threat of gas attacks was a deliberate attempt to recall the horror of the Holocaust...
Soon, the possibilities in "the Scud ate my homework" spread to those old enough to know better. True, war is hell for those who fight it but can be a handy excuse for those who don't, and adults began invoking it with an ingenuity and appetite that their offspring could only dream about. The situation in the Persian Gulf was invoked as a cause of the recession -- or as President Bush is fond of calling it, the temporary interruption in the longest economic expansion in history. Likewise for the two-week closing of the Folies-Bergere in Paris, John...
...according to the allied command, the war can hardly be said to have hit a lull. But last week was the first that brought no new oil spills, Iraqi raids into Saudi Arabia or any other surprise developments, just more -- or less -- of the same. Less: the pace of Scud-missile attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia dwindled further; Israel went five whole days without being the target of even one. More: additional Iraqi planes fled to safety in Iran (the total is now said to be 147), though for the first time, American jets shot down six before they...
...Iraqi Scud strike on the northern Saudi city of Hafr al-Batin was intercepted by a Patriot missile...