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After years of military intimidation by Beijing, Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian has announced wording for a referendum designed to draw both domestic and international attention to China’s missile threat to the democratic island.

Very likely the Powell and Myers statements were intended to encourage Taiwan’s president to keep the language of the missile referendum within bounds.

Washington can hardly deny that Chinese missiles threaten the island republic.

In fact, the U.S. government has been urging Taiwan to face up to China’s missile deployments for the past three years.

Every Taiwan defense official visiting the Pentagon is treated to the same disquisition on the necessity for missile defense, long-range surveillance radars, and hardened construction to protect vulnerable military targets.

In a world in which the know-how to produce missile delivery systems and nuclear and biological weapons will soon be commoditized, you should want your bureaucratic warriors to be on a war-like footing.

In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Adlai Stevenson unveiled spy-plane photographs at the United Nations, just as Secretary of State Colin Powell offered evidence last year to support his contention that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was trying to acquire nuclear weapons.

Hussein slaughtered more Muslims than anyone in modern history, invaded two countries and fired missiles into Israel.

Since the political prisoners are never released, there is no danger of them divulging military secrets; they are assigned to work on missiles and other special weapons.

Indeed, they hate the very idea of spending money on a missile-defense system, when the same money could instead be earmarked for lemming-luring largesse.

Even before the missile crisis of October 1962, two movies were in production on the subject of accidentally produced atomic war, as was another imagining a military coup launched against a pro- disarmament US president.

The entire movie- mediated cold war, from the dramatic Manhattan Project thriller The Beginning or the End and the paranoid I Married a Communist, through the soft apocalypse of The Next Voice You Hear and the sci-fi extravaganza When Worlds Collide - with its Strangelove-like industrialist-in-a-wheelchair - to On the Beach and the missile crisis, was replayed at high speed .

Yassin, 67, the highest profile target so far hit by the Israelis, suffered a light injury to his hand after a missile from an aircraft hit the building he had just left in Gaza City.

Hamas's top leaders had assembled in one room, but the 550lb missile that tore through the window wasn't enough to kill them, it emerged last night.

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