Word: scud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dearth of uncensored, firsthand information about the war is forcing the press -- especially television -- to focus on the few parts of the story reporters can witness. The TV networks have continued (though with less frequency) to break in with live shots of reporters under Scud missile attack in Israel and Saudi Arabia. Some correspondents learned the hard way the pitfalls of that approach. For many viewers, the week's most memorable moment came not when General Powell unveiled his diagrams of damaged Iraqi targets but when CNN's Charles Jaco scrambled for his gas mask on the air in Saudi...
...important pieces of reporting and analysis, like a story in the New York Times revealing that pro-Saddam sentiment is growing in Egypt. Times executive editor Max Frankel maintains that the major unexplored story of the war lies inside Iraq: "That's the heart of the war, not some Scud missile landing on a correspondent's hotel roof...
...maintained the U.S. presence in Vietnam, Bush's goals enjoy the support of the United Nations, a multinational force, Congress and a vast majority of Americans. Moreover, Saddam's blatant disregard for civilians -- his initial holding of unwilling Western "guests," the torture and killing of unarmed Kuwaitis, his ongoing Scud attacks against civilian targets in Israel -- has ensured that he will not be lionized as Ho Chi Minh was during the Vietnam War. If anything, his brutality has strengthened allied public and official support for his elimination...
Searching for mobile Scud launchers last week did divert allied warplanes from bombing targets of greater military importance. That and heavy clouds over Iraq and Kuwait early in the week briefly slowed the tempo of the air assault. Many allied planes carry infrared devices and guidance systems that enable them to hit targets they cannot see. But assessment of bomb damage can only be done visually, which is impossible through clouds. That in turn makes it difficult to decide which planes should be sent to hit targets a second time and which can pound new ones...
...their conflicting interests. He is especially careful in his dealings with the Saudis. Only last week King Fahd, worried about an attack on Riyadh, wanted reassurance from the top. Schwarzkopf went to the palace and advised Fahd that his main concern was the possibility that Saddam could fire Scud missiles with chemical warheads at the capital. That was not much in the way of reassurance, but at least the King got straight talk...