Word: soils
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...promise as well as threat. Four republics -- Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belorussia -- stand to inherit all the long-range strategic warheads and perhaps 90% of the tactical weapons. The republics talk , of dismantling many of these arms; Ukraine and Belorussia insist they eventually want no nukes whatsoever on their soil. But it is by no means certain that the republics can agree, among themselves and with what remains of Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin government, on any program for actually achieving those aims before the momentum of dissolution leads to far different results: bitter squabbles over who controls the strategic weapons...
...structure that would put the easily mobile tactical weapons into dangerous hands. These nukes -- artillery shells, warheads on short-range missiles, nuclear mines -- are much easier to seize than ICBMs stored in underground silos. Already the southern republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan have "nationalized" all military property on their soil, prompting Moscow to announce that the army would shoot to repel any seizure. Nonetheless, local riot police in Azerbaijan have hijacked some army trucks full of ammunition. It is not inconceivable that future raiders or army mutineers might grab some nukes...
Bush should shift gears, turn his finger away from Israel and pressure the Arabs to show up on Israeli soil. It was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem in 1977 that sparked the Camp David Accords. A similar confidence-building measure from the Arabs now could really jumpstart the peace process...
...that their freedom will be retained. The entire resources . . . of the United States stand behind that pledge." Added Secretary of War Henry Stimson: "Your gallant defense is thrilling the American people. As soon as our power is organized, we shall come in force and drive the invader from your soil." So MacArthur told his trapped men, "Help is definitely on the way. We must hold out until it comes...
...century B.C. Greek statue of a goddess, perhaps Aphrodite. Italy claims it was furtively unearthed in 1979 from the archaeological dig at Morgantina, Sicily. Some experts doubt that Morgantina, a onetime Greek colony, was the specific origin, but Italy is convinced the statue came from somewhere under its soil...