Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...attacking Israel. U.S. analysts have already detected the movement of missiles toward areas of western Iraq from which they could hit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in five minutes. Americans fear that Iraq could launch a salvo of 50 to 60 missiles, accompanied by an aircraft attack. Saddam, they say, would try to make it appear that the U.S. and Israel had provoked the attack, possibly by having an Iraqi aircraft drop a bomb on Baghdad...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the exiled dissident, writing a polemic about the nation's current crisis in the pages of nothing less than Komsomolskaya Pravda (circ. 22 million), the mouthpiece of the Young Communist League. The 16,000-word text was also printed in Literaturnaya Gazeta (4.5 million), which only five years ago berated its author as "that vile scum of a traitor...
...July 28, five days before Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait, U.S. reconnaissance satellites had spotted the logistical preparations for an offensive. The CIA and Pentagon quickly changed their estimates of an attack from possible to highly likely. The White House and State Department, however, clung to the view that Saddam was only trying to frighten Kuwait into territorial concessions and refused to accept that intelligence judgment...
...more than a century, Roman Catholics have flocked to the shrine at Lourdes to pray and bathe in the sacred waters of the grotto spring. Five million pilgrims are expected to visit this year, enriching the town by nearly $400 million. So many faithful are coming, in fact, that a holy-water shortage has developed. For the first time in its history, Lourdes is rationing the blessed potion...
...civil war in Liberia sputters on. The U.S. had hoped the capture of President Samuel Doe by insurgents and his death two weeks ago would immediately lead to negotiations among rival rebels Prince Yormie Johnson and Charles Taylor, the remnants of Doe's loyal soldiers, and troops from a five-nation West African peacekeeping force...