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...north" of the country, a euphamism that every Isreali knew to mean Tel Aviv and Haifa repectively. No report on casualties yet. I am in a state of shock. It doesn't seem real that I could be abruptly awakened in the middle of the night and forced to hide in a sealed room wearing a suffocating gas mask. The Gulf War has come to Israel...
...alliance could score a reasonably quick knockout. The awesome arsenal that the coalition has assembled in the gulf provides it with overwhelming military advantages. "I look at the scenarios," says an Army colonel, "and I just don't see where Saddam's army is going to hide...
Despite the Shamir government's efforts to maintain a low profile throughout the crisis, Saddam Hussein once again succeeded in yanking Israel back to center stage. Only this time, Israel responded by ending its game of hide-and- seek and adopting very public preparations for striking back. "Our pilots are in their cockpits," declared air-force commander Avihu Bin-Nun on state- owned television as he stood in front of a fully armed F-15 equipped with external fuel tanks for the more than 500-mile trip to Baghdad...
...best defense against steroids, year-round random testing, is meant to counter athletes' efforts to hide the presence of drugs by stopping their use just before competition. But year-round testing is costly and complicated. Even sports organizations that say they are intent upon rooting out steroids -- the U.S. Olympic Committee and the NCAA, among them -- are only now gathering the experience and resources to do so. The NCAA conducted about 14,000 drug tests in 1990, vs. 5,000 in 1986, but year-round testing is still limited to Division I football...
...enemy in that war posed every bit as tough a military and strategic challenge to the U.S. as Iraq does now. Not only did Hanoi's forces have jungles to hide in but they also had the backing of both the Soviet Union and China. Now the U.S. has Moscow and Beijing on its side, more or less...