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...merits of a national missile-defense system. Adding a stepped-up campaign against Saddam to the list of things to sell abroad seems unlikely. Still, there is frustration in Washington and an eagerness to define a new policy: "What we've got now is a kind of tit-for-tat arrangement," says a senior White House official. "We have to ask ourselves, 'What's the purpose of that policy?'" If it's Saddam's ouster, there are those close to the President who may think a new war would work better...
...Sunshine State, the genteel animadversions of James Baker and David Boies on the Sunday talk shows - all these represent quite an advance from the massacre on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, when the Catholics cut down 3,000 Huguenots as part of the sectarian tit for tat that went on until the entire argument collapsed in exhaustion and the Edict of Nantes...
...battle wasn't sufficient evidence that the peace process isn't going anywhere soon, the killing of an Israeli security guard at a government building in East Jerusalem and the discovery of the body of an Israeli civilian in the nearby neighborhood of Gilo could easily develop into a tit-for-tat shooting war among civilians in and around the Holy City...
...father Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who had gone to the U.S. to claim him, were free to go home. Cubans like architect Ernesto Pasalagua, 67, called Elian's return "a great victory, just like the Bay of Pigs." But this custody saga has proved to be more than an extended tit for tat. Just as Elian's young mind will now struggle to reconcile the polarized worlds of Pikachu and Elpidio, he may have forced post-cold war politics to do the same. That's largely because Elian showed many Americans that not everyone in Cuba wears a beard, fatigues...
...shorter than if he himself had been sold out. What's the best thing to do? Robert Axelrod, a political scientist at the University of Michigan, tested various strategies over a number of years and discovered that as the game is repeated over and over, a simple strategy of tit for tat tends to win: if someone gives you something, reciprocate; if no one does, don't. That's what the bats...