Word: vacuumized
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...renewed Palestinian attacks on Israel have been limited mostly to the new intifadeh that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza last September. But in the present vacuum, there is talk about Lebanon once again becoming a battlefield. A Western diplomat believes 10,000 Palestinian guerrillas are under arms inside the country. Camps like Ein al-Helweh in southern Lebanon, virtually off-limits to the Lebanese army, are awash with AK-47s. With schoolchildren raised on militant nationalism and playing war in the streets, Lebanese regard the refugee camps as ticking time bombs. The fear is that Palestinian guerrillas...
...those from the officially atheist U.S.S.R., which had eliminated many of them anyway. On New Year's Eve, crews were permitted to set up a small, nonsectarian tree, which did little to improve the Das Boot ambience. To lift their mood further, they would break out the ship's vacuum cleaner and take turns riding it around the tree--the poor man's jet pack...
...happened before, someone from the School Committee will probably step up to fill the incumbent vacuum, Koocher said...
...concern may be the fate of Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which looks set to collapse. Israeli blockades have dramatically impacted on the PA's income, and its political legitimacy is already deeply corroded by rampant cronyism and corruption. But allowing the PA to collapse will create a dangerous power vacuum in the West Bank and Gaza, which many fear will ultimately be filled by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militants. And that may present Israel with a problem even greater than its frustrations with Arafat. Mindful of that scenario, U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell gently urged the Israelis, during...
DRAFTING Drivers race in single file "trains." The first car creates a vacuum and pulls the others along. Traveling up to 200 m.p.h., cars may be inches apart. The closer they are, the faster they...