Word: destroyer
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...words was reassuring; Arafat and Rabin had left themselves no room for ambiguity, evasion or disavowal. The veteran antagonists had actually put on paper the idea that generations of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, themselves included, had vowed never to entertain: no longer will Israel and the P.L.O. try to destroy each other. Instead they will attempt to live side by side in peace. What had justly been called the world's most intractable problem suddenly looked solvable...
...against Jews to stop the return of the Sinai to Egypt, this time the threat is likely to be contained by two factors -- Israel's reverence for democracy and its highly effective security forces. Once the Knesset votes to uphold the plan, only a few zealots would try to destroy it. And Rabin, a man with a deserved reputation for toughness, will not shrink from arresting violent subversives. "One should never forget that Israel is still a state, a people and a democracy," Peres warns. "Just as we defend our land and secure our people, we will protect our freedom...
...Foreign Minister and chief dove, once observed in wonderment that when it comes to peace, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. In 1947, when the U.N. offered them a state side by side with Israel, they rejected the plan and joined the Arab war to destroy the nascent Jewish state in order to take all of Palestine for themselves. They lost...
...volcano and a drought destroy the world's first empire...
...retired Army missile- defense chief: "We didn't gimmick anything." William Inglis, the experiment's civilian test director, dismissed the accusations of an SDI hoax as "technical nonsense." There was indeed a beacon, but, said Inglis, it served only for "range safety" purposes, allowing ground crews to destroy the ICBM if it went off course...