Word: scudding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams walked junior right fielder Mike Hill and then proceeded to hit sophomore shortstop Mike Giardi on the arm (Giardi and freshman catcher Bryan Brissette would fall victim once more to Williams' Scud-like accuracy later in the game...
...Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonoth. Dore Gold of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University voiced a suspicion common in Israel: "What we're witnessing is a kind of psychological warfare between allies, particularly because Washington faced a very embarrassing moment after its failure to grab the Scud ship." But questions will linger because Israel has sold enough military technology to China in the past to make the latest charges seem plausible...
...gulf war, whose impact on Israel Schneerson supposedly predicted. Before the fighting began, the Lubavitcher rebbe, or spiritual leader, declared that Israel would be the "safest place in the world." Actually, 74 Israelis died, all but six of them from heart problems caused by the terror of 39 Iraqi Scud-missile attacks. Still, the loss of so few lives seemed to many Lubavitchers the result of divine Providence...
...seemed a straightforward assignment for the high-tech wizards in naval intelligence. They were alerted that the North Korean freighter Dae Hung Ho had sailed with a reputed cargo of Scud-C ballistic missiles bound ultimately for Syria, and they were told to track it. Last week an eager faction in the National Security Council and the State Department leaked word that the U.S. was determined to intercept the freighter and search its hold as it made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq...
Washington's embarrassment served as an excuse for Syrian President Hafez Assad to lash out at U.S. Middle East policies. Damascus already has Scud missiles capable of striking Israel. The Scud-Cs believed to be part of the Ho's cargo have a greater range, at more than 300 miles, than the Scud-Bs already in Syria's arsenal, but they would not significantly alter the balance of power in the Middle East. While denying that the Ho was delivering new missiles -- a denial echoed by North Korea -- Assad attacked Washington's efforts to "strip the Arabs of their weapons...