Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...process but with those who are in charge of it. The Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law was billed as the magic bullet that would blow away both the deficit ogre and the obstacles to orderly action. Gramm-Rudman has proved to be a dud. Overhauling the machinery yet again would help only if its operators were able to muster the will to run it properly. But if they could manage that, no overhaul would be necessary...
Israel is also relying on its ability to detect, with the help of U.S. satellites, any Iraqi preparations for a missile launch. Once Baghdad begins placing its missiles on launchers, Israel and the U.S. expect to have five or six hours to coordinate a response before the missiles can be fired. To keep Israel out of the fray, Washington may volunteer to take out the missiles, but Shamir will require some convincing. Says Defense Minister Moshe Arens: "Nobody will do the job for us. We can do it, and we should...
Sometimes, when U.S. colloquialisms are so cryptic that not even a dictionary can help, members call on TIME's Seoul bureau. There reporter K.C. Hwang and assistant Kim Jung Ran aid in deciphering such curious expressions as Where's the beef?, laundering money, or read my lips...
...quest to give Argentina a greater international profile, President Carlos Menem may be sailing into troubled waters. Last week two missile- bearing Argentine frigates departed to join the forces in the Persian Gulf. Menem, who is of Syrian descent, dispatched the vessels even though the help was not requested. "Argentina, long considered not serious or reliable, will slowly change its image," he declared. A poll indicates that 70% of his fellow citizens oppose the move, which ironically places Argentina in alliance with Britain, its enemy in the 1982 Falklands...
...itself. Abraham Sofaer, former legal counsel to the State Department, and others advance this argument: Article 51 of the United Nations Charter recognizes the right of self-defense against armed attack, not only for the victim nation but also for others coming to its aid. Kuwait has appealed for help under Article 51, and the U.N. Security Council has in effect underwritten that appeal by passing resolutions condemning Iraq. Thus the U.S. could legitimately strike Iraq and exercise all the rights of a belligerent, including the right to kill the enemy commander, Saddam...