Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...fashion and cheerfully debate their irrelevance, like dinosaurs analyzing their own bones. Most of them are moneyed, but they soon must admit to a crucial class distinction: between the aristocracy of the desired and the proletariat of the unloved. In short, they are very like the rest of us. Though his setting and dialogue are tres swank, writer-director Whit Stillman made Metropolitan for peanut shells, and with a cast of novice screen actors. Best of all, he compliments his viewers by respecting their intelligence. Moviegoers should don their tuxes and rush out to return the favor...
...Soviet Union denounce Saddam Hussein's takeover of Kuwait, support the U.N.-imposed economic sanctions against him, and yet keep its own military advisers on the job in Iraq? The idea is troubling -- though perhaps not as sinister as some Western observers have suggested...
...grab, however, a Soviet spokesman gave a different figure: about 1,000. The discrepancy aroused suspicions of Soviet fudging. U.S. intelligence officials supported an estimate of 500 to 1,000 advisers, but were convinced that the technicians were not at a level high enough to justify a big fuss, though naturally Washington would rather they went home. According to several sources, they have given the West detailed information on the weapons and their deployment...
...Kremlin says the advisers will stay on until their contracts expire, though it has not said when that will happen. Among the reasons for Moscow's reluctance to yank them out swiftly are fears that Saddam would retaliate by taking hostage the 9,000 Soviet citizens stuck in Iraq. The Soviets are also eager to maintain a toehold in Iraq for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the crisis...
...variables so long -- (the length of the war, number of troops involved, whether chemical weapons are used, intensity of air raids, accuracy of Iraqi missiles and antiaircraft fire, extent of damage to oil wells barely begin the list) -- that they cannot be predicted with anything remotely resembling precision. But though war might become inevitable, two factors should give pause to the most fervent of American hawks...