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...test in which every possible answer seems wrong. But the President's bad dream is all too real. And it has a name: Saddam Hussein. When the Iraqi nemesis bared his fangs at Clinton and the U.N. last week--expelling American weapons inspectors from Iraq, threatening to shoot down U-2 surveillance planes and daring the world to do something about it--he precipitated the gravest international crisis of Clinton's presidency. American and U.N. officials believe Saddam blocked the Special Commission inspection teams because they were closing in on his secret stores of biological weapons, some held...
Clinton's choice would be simplified the moment Iraq launched a missile at a U-2 on a U.N. surveillance mission--or merely locked the plane in its radar-tracking sights. "If he lights up a plane with radar or takes a shot, that'll open the door to attack," a senior Pentagon official told Time. "We're just waiting for him to do something stupid so we can whack him." But as long as Saddam avoids that rash move, the President's options will remain less than perfect...
...were executing as many as six sorties a day over southern Iraq reported that Saddam was preparing for an American attack by dispersing his surface-to-air missile batteries and bunkering his jets. TIME has learned that fighters from the Nimitz planned to accompany the first U-2 reconnaissance flight on Sunday or Monday, flying at a much lower altitude than the spy plane, which cruises at 90,000 ft. An Iraqi missile attack on the U-2 or its fighter escorts could dissolve Russian, French and Chinese opposition to the use of force--and give America a reason...
...doing a job where anything can happen, but there never was a scary sense that something actually could happen," he says. "Now there's a much better chance that something will happen, so guys are going into the box with that mind-set." It was the threat to the U-2 spy plane that was setting off the pilots' internal alarm bells. They knew that if Saddam Hussein even tried to fire at a U-2, the Nimitz air warriors would be launched in reprisal. When a U-2 flew early last week, the pilots "spooled up," sensing that...
...U-2, THE PLANE--STILL THE RIGHT STUFF...