Word: scud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tradition had been borne out amply and with sore discomfort as units of the 1st Armored Division were ordered to roll south on the double from Germany. First, many soldiers who arrived by dribs and drabs in Kaposvar, Hungary, had to cool their heels for a week in former Scud-missile sheds while the bridge was built over the Sava River. Now more G.I.s are actually in Bosnia, going on patrol, watching out for mines and, of course, griping about the lodgings and the cold...
...thousands of documents turned over to the U.N., Iraq admitted that as the U.S. mobilized forces to invade Kuwait in November 1990, it had begun filling 191 bombs and Scud missile warheads with deadly biological agents such as anthrax and botulinum toxin. The bombs would have been mounted on missiles, planes or drone aircraft and dropped on enemy troops, fewer than half of whom had received the appropriate germ-warfare vaccinations. Twenty-five Scuds outfitted with biological weapons were aimed at cities in Saudi Arabia and Israel...
...Administration experts say they were capable of causing thousands of casualties. "It would have been awful," says Matthew Meselson, a germ-warfare expert at Harvard University. For example, botulinum toxin kills by interfering with the nervous system and ultimately paralyzing the respiratory muscles. The Pentagon estimated that just one Scud missile warhead filled with the toxin could contaminate...
MOVIES Israel Romancing the Scud Song of the Sirens Directed by Eytan...
...Israeli films, war is a prevailing theme, so it is hardly surprising that Song of the Sirens is set against the backdrop of the Gulf War. What makes it unusual--and refreshingly so--is that the film is a romantic comedy about looking for love while Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles are headed for Tel Aviv. Says its director, U.S.-born Israeli Eytan Fox: ``Israeli films tend to be ideological and socially and politically oriented. No wonder Israelis run away from them as too heavy and morbid.'' Not so for Fox's Song of the Sirens: since opening last October...