Word: deployable
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...last week to commit troops to a pan-Arab force and to honor the worldwide U.N. economic embargo against Iraq. At an emergency session of the Arab League in Cairo, 12 of the 20 delegations agreed "to respond to the request by Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to deploy Arab forces to support the armed forces there." Significantly, their numbers included Egypt and Syria, which have two of the Middle East's largest armies. Algeria and Yemen abstained, while Jordan, Sudan and Mauritania expressed reservations and did not even vote. Iraq of course rejected the package, supported by Libya...
Bush made the decision to deploy the Marines on Saturday while monitoring the Middle East situation during a working weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David. The action, observed a White House official, "sends the same message that we sent when we went into Panama. When American lives and interests are at risk, this President will take military action." And while Bush's decision on Liberia was not linked to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, it came at an opportune moment for demonstrating U.S. resolve to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein...
Since February, Star Wars research has focused on an innovation called Brilliant Pebbles -- thousands of small, independently controlled satellites designed to home in on and destroy enemy nuclear warheads. "The technology is at hand" to deploy a Brilliant Pebbles system, General George Monahan, then SDI director, assured Congress. The Pentagon contends that 4,614 Brilliant Pebbles could be put into orbit for $55 billion, vs. $69 billion for previous schemes...
...release deadly radioactive plutonium or uranium from the cores. The safety problems, disclosed last week by the Washington Post, were promptly confirmed in public congressional hearings. The difficulties seem sure to complicate immensely a review under way of how many and what kind of nuclear weapons the U.S. should deploy in the light of easing cold-war tensions and prospective arms-control deals with the Soviets...
...submarine-based ballistic missiles and aircraft. But proliferating cruise missiles presented more difficulty. The U.S. at one point thought it had Moscow's agreement to leave sea-launched cruise missiles out of the treaty; each side would merely make "politically binding" declarations of how many it intended to deploy. Last week the U.S. essentially got its way when the Soviets agreed to a separate declaration outside the main treaty that would limit each side to 880 SLCMs...