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...investigating team meantime returned to New York from the battlefront with fresh evidence that Iraq is using chemical weapons. According to the experts, Iraqi forces fired poison-gas shells at Iranian troops before retaking the Majnoun Islands in June. The first symptoms in those affected were described as "burning in the eyes and various parts of the body." Last week Iranian officials claimed that Iraqi planes dropped mustard-gas bombs on towns and villages in northwestern Iran, injuring some 1,700 people. Iraq denied the allegations...
Then come the Navy's new SSN-21 attack submarine ($2.9 billion for just the first one ordered); the Army's proposed Forward Area Air Defense system, a complex of sensors, guns and missiles to provide air cover on the battlefront ($60 billion); and the bills for two more nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, approved by Congress last year ($20 billion with escort ships and airplanes). The Administration is also asking for upwards of $5 billion a year for the Strategic Defense Initiative...
Perhaps the hottest battlefront in the New York-Chicago conflict is between the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Merc, which trades the controversial S&P 500 index futures. Each side in the standoff is unwilling to make any major procedural changes for fear of losing turf. The New York exchange, which was slow in setting up its own financial-futures market, controls 10% of worldwide trading in such contracts; the Chicago exchanges' share is about 80%. Contends John Sandner, chairman of the Chicago Merc: "We were so successful that it caused everyone to want to take our success...
...been on the battlefront for Israel too long for anyone to throw that crap at us." That was the reaction of Hyman Bookbinder, 71, a longtime leader of the American Jewish Committee, to Israeli criticism of U.S. Jewish leaders in the wake of the painful case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, 32; the American intelligence analyst was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this month as an Israeli spy. Few could remember a previous dispute that had produced such tension between Israel and its closest friends in the U.S. But then, as Morris Abram, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major...
...said the warning was intended to undermine Soviet-Iranian relations, "involve us in a war with our northern neighbor" and divert Iranian troops from the battlefront with Iraq. Iran has been at war with Iraq since...