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When Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens arrived in Washington for a crucial White House meeting, Israel had withstood 11 attacks by Iraqi Scuds. Some had been shot down by the Patriot missiles that the U.S. had rushed to Israel after the first attack on Jan. 17. But a number had hit home, leaving four dead and 98 wounded. Though the restless Israelis had acceded to Washington's pleas not to retaliate, the continuing threat of Scud attacks and fear of chemical warheads had stretched Jerusalem's patience to the limit...
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...
They failed to provoke Israeli retaliation or spread mass terror among Saudis. ^ And now, most embarrassing of all, Iraq's Scud missiles are falling apart before they even reach their targets. More than 70 Scuds have been launched so far, and lately they're breaking up while heading toward their destinations. U.S. military men say sloppy Iraqi workmanship is at fault. The basic Soviet- built Scud-B has a 180-mile range, not enough to hit Israel or Saudi cities from Iraq. So the Iraqis have welded on liquid-fuel boosters to produce the Al Abbas (range: 540 miles...