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...refineries near them. Richard Muerdter, owner of the Eagle Army & Navy store in Louisville, says one frightened woman told him: "They're going to send terrorists over here to gas all of us." Some stores reported calls from anxious customers who wanted to know if Iraq's Scud missiles (top range: 560 miles) could reach the U.S. mainland. From California to Western Europe, there were scattered reports of people stockpiling such staples as flour, sugar and rice...
...Palestinian children under Israeli occupation, the gulf war has added a new twist to the ongoing cycle of violence in the Holy Land. Youngsters of both communities face injury or death from Iraqi missiles, or even bombs dropped from planes, but the reactions have been vastly different. The Scud attacks, which so far have primarily hit the Tel Aviv area but pose a threat to the whole country, have left Israeli children feeling fearful, frustrated and helpless. Palestinian youngsters, by contrast, appear relaxed and resigned. Sometimes they are even proud that an Arab -- Saddam Hussein -- has been able to strike...
...other hand, have been inured to violence through Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the three- year-old intifadeh. Arab youngsters have been in the vanguard of the uprising, burning tires, hurling stones -- and dying violently. They see little to fear from the Scud attacks. If they are hit, it will be by accident. And whether they die by Israeli guns or Saddam's missiles, they will still be martyrs to the Palestinian cause. Says Zobaida Abu-Humos, Shirin's older cousin: "I've seen so many Palestinians die. It doesn't make...
...disputing that the allies' high-tech weapons chest is loaded with razzle-dazzle. But just what were those fancy guidance systems locking onto and those clever bombs blowing to smithereens? In some cases, it seems, nothing more than a cardboard shell gussied up to look like an Iraqi Scud launcher...
...BOMBS begin to drop, as we begin, as a society, to speak in the vernacular of SCUD and F-15 and our airwaves are suddenly, more than ever, monopolized by generals and Pentagon spokesmen, by understandably trembling journalists and the satellite-dished, horrific images of mothers placing gas masks on their small children, it may, now more than ever, be a good time to ponder the role--or, rather, the nonrole--of poets and poetry in our lives, of the men and women in this country who are dismissed from the daily hurly-burly of significance with the rather glib...