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...would Shamir turn over targeting information, sanitized or not, to the Soviets? After all, says Hersh, Israel has trained its own nuclear weapons primarily on the Soviet Union since it made its first warheads in 1968. His explanation: Jerusalem thought Arab nations would not launch a concerted war to destroy the Jewish state unless they had Soviet backing; targeting Israeli nukes on the U.S.S.R. would deter Moscow from offering such support. According to the book, Israel asked Pollard to steal satellite pictures in the first place so that it could aim its missiles at targets beyond border areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Shamir Give Away Secrets? | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...EEOC and those feminists who back this subjective standard of harassment would like us to abandon a thousand years of Anglo-Saxon legal precedent. Such an abandonment will not end harassment. It will merely destroy the rule...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Not All Men Are Scum | 10/22/1991 | See Source »

...emergency room and wait for hours behind the gunshot victims. Had they gone to the doctor a week earlier for a five-minute visit they couldn't afford, they would have stopped the illness in its tracks. Instead, they use emergency rooms for primary care, and help destroy already overburdened innercity hospitals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curing All Our Nation's Ill | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

During Saturday's session, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch aimed squarely at the accuser, implying that Hill was working in tandem with "slick lawyers" bent on destroying Thomas' chances to join the court. Thomas appeared to endorse that view when committee chairman Joseph Biden asked if he believed that Hill had fabricated a tale of sexual harassment. "Some interest groups came up with this story, and this story was developed specifically to destroy me," the nominee responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Said, He Said | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...something happened last week that may, for better or worse, permanently destroy all that comity. Senator Hatch opened the hearings in disgust, saying that if the Democrats had only asked for a closed executive session, the committee would have been spared its Friday circus. Senator Alan Simpson, who usually manages to hide his meanness behind an Andy Rooney facade, warned Hill that she would be "injured, and destroyed and belittled and hounded and harassed -- real harassment, different from the sexual kind, just plain old Washington-variety harassment." What debates over the budget, arms control, abortion or the gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultimate Men's Club | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

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