Word: scud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that "in all essential aspects, the nuclear-weapons program is mapped and has been destroyed through the war or neutralized thereafter." Rolf Ekeus, chairman of the U.N. monitoring team, believes Baghdad's chemical programs have been dismantled. Ekeus is also confident that his men have accounted for all 890 Scud-B missiles Iraq bought from the Soviet Union during the 1970s and '80s. But he still has doubts that Iraq has destroyed its biological-weapons program...
...Yemeni capital of San'a slumbered early last Wednesday morning, a Scud missile slammed into a crowded neighborhood on the northern outskirts of the city. Notoriously inaccurate, the Scud missed its intended target -- the presidential palace -- and destroyed a block of mud-brick houses. Twenty-five residents were killed in their sleep, their bodies scattered amid crumbled masonry and shreds of wicker baskets. Later, as bulldozers pushed away the rubble, workers trained fire hoses on the angry crowd to disperse it. The casualties were the first known civilian deaths in a violent struggle for power between two rival political leaders...
...diplomatic recognition and economic aid for the North's full compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other Western demands, was scratched. South Korea put its 633,000 troops on alert. Seoul also accepted an American offer to deploy 48 Patriot missile launchers to defend against North Korean Scud missiles and announced that it had resumed planning for the Team Spirit military exercises with the U.S., suspended in February to placate the North. Washington weighed whether to supplement its 34,830 troops in South Korea and beef up their equipment. All the military talk sparked fears that the yearlong...
...Scud Stud and peacock make peace, as NBC talks of his return...
Just in the past year CIA information helped: the French government prevent the shipment of missile-related graphite cylinders to Pakistan; the Germans to interdict a shipment of Scud-missile production equipment being transferred to Syria; Italian authorities to block the delivery of excavation equipment en route to Libya for possible use in construction of an underground chemical- weapons plant; and the Swiss to stop the sale of equipment ordered by a nuclear-related Pakistani company...