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...bargaining at the UN may be tough, in the weeks to come, but it's more likely than the prewar wrangling to produce agreement - because this time, France and Russia can't afford to remain on the sidelines...
ISRAEL Israel is likely to be targeted by Iraq in the event of war. Still, the government firmly supports U.S. action against Iraq, whose missiles, potentially tipped with weapons of mass destruction, threaten Israel. Israel has already had scouts inside western Iraq doing prewar reconnaissance. Israeli intelligence forces would work closely with the U.S. during...
...army's occupation of the West Bank, and a tacit assurance that Israel will not retaliate against Iraq should Saddam Hussein, faced with imminent military defeat, lob Scuds into Israeli cities - as he did 39 times during the Gulf War. In so doing, the U.S. hopes to allay the prewar jitters of Arab leaders, who fear that an Israeli attack on Iraq could inflame their own populations, destabilize their regimes and perhaps draw them into a wider...
...business of childhood proceeded, even under the dead hand of communists. Andris and his friends watched prewar American cowboy movies, stole candy and practiced various forms of juvenile delinquency. They traded the usual sexual misinformation. After Stalin's death in 1953, in a citywide funeral march, Andris and his schoolmates were seized by a fit of giggles: "We couldn't stop, perhaps exactly because it was so dangerous...
...works like Silence and The Samurai are superb accounts of East failing to meet West. Because of his Christian preoccupations, Endo has become one of Japan's best-known writers overseas. The most underrated of the great Japanese modernists in the West is Junichiro Tanizaki, whose portrait of a prewar Osaka family, The Makioka Sisters, is one of the landmarks of 20th century literature. He is undervalued in the West, I think, in part because his work, which stretches over half a century, is not easy to characterize, ranging as it does from fantasy to domestic realism...