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...Israeli warplanes destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, called Osirak, which had been sold to the Baathist government by France in November 1975. The air strike, known as “Operation Babylon,” was carried out to prevent Hussein’s engineers from constructing a nuclear weapon that could have been used against Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin stressed that a pre-emptive disabling of the Osirak reactor was wholly justified as a means of national self-defense...
...straight shot has become Harvard’s weapon of choice on the corner after the usual required motions—pushing the ball in from the end line and trapping it at the top of the circle 16 yards out from the net. Andrews, one of three players Harvard regularly rotates up top, distinguished herself this past weekend...
...bomb. Saddam could make one faster by stealing or buying enriched uranium on the black market from former Soviet republics--which U.S. intelligence believes he has not yet succeeded in doing. If he could make such a deal, however, U.S. officials say Iraq could have a crude nuclear weapon in months, with a yield equivalent to the ones that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...gunman, Abdul Rahman, 22, who was part of Sherzai's security detail, raised his weapon and pumped several rounds into the car. Amazingly, Karzai managed to duck the bullets. One grazed Sherzai's neck, and another struck a U.S. soldier. A nearby youth, 19, by some accounts the one who had moved forward to greet Karzai, shoved Rahman to the ground. The U.S. commandos then bounded out of their vehicle and opened fire. Rahman, the youth and an Afghan bodyguard died in the fusillade. Back in Kabul that night, Karzai seemed unfazed by his brush with death but aware that...
...DIED. UZI GAL, 79, Israeli engineer and inventor of the submachine gun that bears his name; in Philadelphia. Sales of the reliable and easy-to-use weapon, a staple in the military arsenals of over 20 countries, have earned Israel's government-run armaments industry over $2 billion in revenue since the Uzi's introduction...