Word: shies
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...open hostilities, even limited to allied air strikes, would be perilous for both leaders. Saddam could not be sure his luck would hold again against Kurds, Shi'ites and his own disgruntled generals -- not to mention U.S. smart bombs. Bush faces a more complex set of inhibitions. Saddam has been playing a brilliant game of "cheat and retreat," chipping away at the sanctions without driving the allies to retaliation. He is not likely to hand Bush the kind of flagrant breach that would spur a unanimous vote for war among U.S. allies. Washington is prepared to go it alone, says...
...destruction, refused to renew an agreement allowing relief workers to operate in Iraq, spurned a U.N. deal that would allow him to sell $1.6 billion in oil to finance food and humanitarian aid, and rejected a new U.N.-demarcated border with Kuwait. He has even stepped up operations against Shi'ite Muslim rebels in the south. In Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Iraq, gun, grenade and car-bomb attacks have targeted U.N. guards, one of whom was killed. Saddam blames the Kurds, but the U.N. rejects that claim and says he is responsible for protecting its personnel in any case...
Bill's reputation for speed and accuracy made him the natural choice for one of our toughest writing assignments ever: the crash cover he produced on a Sunday in 1983 when Shi'ite terrorists blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. While our idled presses around the world waited for Bill's copy, he absorbed stacks of correspondents' reports and calmly turned out one of the most dramatic stories in the magazine's history. It was Bill Smith at his most professional...
...second week, Israel continued its artillery and air attacks on villages controlled by Shi'ite Hizballah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. So far, 24 people have been killed and 59 wounded. Fighting began after guerrillas attacked Israel's "security zone" inside the Lebanese border. Arab assailants meanwhile stabbed two Israelis to death, a 15-year-old schoolgirl near Tel Aviv and a rabbi in the Gaza Strip. Both murders sparked anti-Arab riots by Israelis. Defense Minister Moshe Arens ordered the Strip sealed off, restricting 700,000 Palestinians to the area...
...received by both the U.S. consulate in Oran, Algeria, and Reuters news agency in Beirut. The Beirut caller even knew that the plane had been delayed for five hours in Cologne, and explained that was why it blew up over Canada instead of over the U.S. He said the Shi'ite Muslim extremist group planted a bomb on board to prove "our ability to strike at the Americans anywhere...