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Saddam's threat last week to fire the first shot -- and to target Israel in the bargain -- convinced Jerusalem that a showdown may come in a matter of weeks. In fact, an Israeli intelligence evaluation concluded that war was "highly probable" and warned that Israel would probably be dragged into the conflict...
Gorbachev backs a bold new economic plan -- with reservations. -- In Liberia rebel forces brace for a bloody showdown. -- An exile returns home to South Africa...
Bush and his aides talked about the showdown leading to a new world order. "If the nations of the world, acting together, continue as they have been, we will set in place the cornerstone of an international order more peaceful than any that we have known," said Bush in Helsinki...
That is a prospect so dire that neither side will allow it to occur. For the first time since the talks began four months ago, Democrats and Republicans both seemed more interested in working out a deal than in political posturing. Bush believes the crisis atmosphere arising from the showdown with Saddam Hussein may be the best, and last, chance to stampede the Congress toward a budget agreement...
...states, will not pay part of any bill for keeping U.S. and other forces in the gulf. It is one of the ironies of the current crisis that Muammar Gaddafi, the man perhaps most feared by Westerners until Saddam Hussein took his place, should profit so handsomely from the showdown in the gulf...