Word: warred
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Another essential rule about lying is that the timing has to be perfect, a subtlety to which vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle is not attuned. When someone asks you about your decision to use family connections in joining the National Guard during the Vietnam War, the right lie is not: "I did not know in 1969 that I would be in this room today...
...deny categorically the allegation that Iraq employed chemical weapons -- outlawed by the 1925 Geneva Protocol -- in putting down a rebellion of Kurds. Asserting that the use of poison gas was "technically impossible" in the Kurdish villages in dispute, Khairallah reiterated Baghdad's position that, in any case, its war against the Kurds was an internal affair, of concern only to Iraq...
...internal affair? Even in World War II, the combatants shunned chemical weapons, so reluctant were they to invite retaliation in kind. Yet until now, international reaction has been muted about Iraq's apparent crime. Last week ten nations, including the U.S., Japan and most West European countries, finally called on the U.N. to send a team of experts to Iraq to investigate the Kurdish charges. Three other countries, among them the Soviet Union, lent their support to the effort after the Reagan Administration leaked word that the U.S. had intercepted Iraqi military communications confirming that lethal gas had been used...
...attempt to appease Iran so as to secure the release of British hostages held by pro-Tehran groups in Lebanon. In France, although officials condemned use of chemical weapons, they also seemed mindful that Baghdad still owes Paris several billion dollars for weapons delivered during the gulf war. Besides, France -- like Italy, Britain and West Germany -- is jockeying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Iraq...
...Guns don't kill; people do." The simple logic of that refrain from the National Rifle Association would suggest that the nation's 2.8 million-member gun lobby would support any move to keep the wrong people from acquiring deadly weapons. Not so. The N.R.A. invariably goes to war against any attempt to limit the avalanche of handguns that are used to kill 21,000 Americans annually. Last week the gun lobby triumphed in its latest campaign, a $4 million effort against a sensible congressional proposal to strengthen existing federal restrictions on the sale of handguns. The legislation would have...