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When the air-raid sirens wail, Tali Rubin, 9, dashes to the "sealed room" in her home in the middle-class Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill, quickly dons her gas mask and, along with her mother, brother and two sisters, waits nervously for the missiles to roar overhead. Her first experience with wearing the protective device was distressing. "It was hard to breathe," recalls Tali. "The mask was too tight. I just wanted to take it off." As the attacks on Israel intensified last week, misery turned to anger. "I'm mad at Saddam Hussein," she declares...
That feeling came to an abrupt end at about 2 a.m. Thursday morning, when Israelis across the country were roused from bed by the wail of air raid sirens...
...become an even more sharply perceived vital American interest, and the friendship of the Saudis and Egyptians accordingly seems all the more significant. One illustration: when Bush last week promised, Congress willing, to forgive Egypt's $7 billion military debt to the U.S., Israel could only wail, How come you're willing to do that for Cairo and not to erase our $4.6 billion foreign debt...
...insert an IV needle, but the boy, who spoke no English, cried and resisted. "No moveas," St. Andrew cajoled in semi-Spanish. An impatient nurse on the phone demanded a blood- pressure reading. Suddenly Tony stopped crying. St. Andrew shook him gently: "Antonio, Antonio!" The boy began to wail again. Everything was chaotically routine. Hospital tests eventually showed that Tony had neither head injuries nor broken bones...
...akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" the call begins. Mesmerized, the Tadzhiks as one man -- there is not a woman in sight among the 10,000 except Alexandra -- raise their hands in the traditional Muslim posture of worship. The Soviets stiffen. The officers disappear from the windows. Except for the wail of the mullah, a total hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading are over, but there is an unmistakable new militancy in the air. "Makhkamov must go!" shouts...