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While the U.S. has been fighting a ground war, the Israeli leader has been preparing for a diplomatic one. "There will be an effort to use political means to snatch from Israel what could not be snatched from us by force," Shamir told his party, adding that nothing would shake his refusal to cede land for peace. The Palestinians' feverish support for Saddam made any compromise over the West Bank and Gaza far more unlikely. And Shamir feels that the restraint he displayed in the face of the Scud barrage entitles Israel to freedom from Washington's heavy hand...
...second shift for Team East, Weisbrod absorbed a hard blow to the head that knocked him out of the game. For the next few days, he tried to shake off debilitating headaches but couldn't. Something else was wrong...
...situation in Iraq than in the proposals for getting out of the crisis. The meeting became lively after the unexpected arrival of President Bush. He had made a dash through the pouring rain from his private residence, just to drop by for a minute, all soaking wet, to shake our hands...
That reaction would not have saved Saddam in any case, though. Strong as the Arab anger was, it was not quite sufficient to shake the governments (Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria) that have made major troop commitments to the coalition. The U.S. and its European allies suffered little if any public backlash against the war. In retrospect, generals played down too much the inevitability of civilian deaths in any bombing campaign. But Westerners, while shocked, seemed to accept the explanations that the U.S. was not directly targeting civilians; that Saddam in contrast was deliberately putting them in harm...
...deadlock lasted 24 seconds. Drury, adding another dimension to his shake-and-bake skating style, gained control of the puck in a crowd just long enough to dump it under Rogles' left...