Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tapes not because she wanted to forestall a challenge to her veracity if she had to out Monica Lewinsky the way she did Kathleen Willey. She didn't put them in a vault to be used defensively. She voluntarily played them for Ken Starr in a pre-emptive strike against the White House she hated, at the expense of the person she had befriended. She readily became an informant and was wired to get evidence admissible in court. She subsequently invited her "friend" to a lunch so FBI agents could grab Lewinsky and take her upstairs for questioning...
...targets, but if Saddam still maintains his defiance, Clinton has to ponder what the next American move will be. In fact, decision makers in Washington are still wrestling with the possibility that Saddam actually wants the U.S. to attack. He could then lay out his corpses for television cameras, strike a victim's pose and fend off forever any effort to locate his weapons of mass destruction. Senior U.S. officials agree privately that the options are not good, but they end up arguing almost angrily that doing nothing is the worst...
...battle for Mideast hearts and minds: The U.S. and Saudi Arabia issued a joint warning to Iraq early Monday. "We are pleased with our talks and confident that the fine, close cooperation of our two countries will continue." Despite the good feelings, the results remain the same: No U.S. strike aircraft will fly out of Saudi bases. Cohen did say he expected the Saudis to at least allow support planes on their airstrips. En route to Kuwait, he told reporters it's harder to muster support when Saddam isn't "raping and pillaging and setting oil wells on fire...
...said publicly that it expects Israel to refrain from holding its fire, as was the case during the Gulf War. Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country has the "know-how" to cope with an Iraqi strike. And that could mean nukes, says Beyer. "The message is uniform that Israel will retaliate in a devastating way ? which is certainly meant to imply that they would use nuclear weapons." Officially, Israel is silent about its nuclear capability...
...Egypt - President Hosni Mubarak is strongly against a military strike. Most Egyptians are sympathetic to the Iraqi cause...