1.   Its discovery might prompt the United States to believe it could carry out a preventive strike against us.

2.   Many on Wall Street, and most of the presidents of the regional Federal Reserve banks, are pushing for a rate hike as a preventive strike against inflation.

3.   Also Tuesday, an Israeli newspaper reported that Israel sent a message to Baghdad that it would not launch a preventive military strike against Iraq.

4.   Comments Friday by Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder indicated that the Fed might have succeeded in its preventive strike against inflation.

5.   Israel has sent a message to Baghdad that it will not launch a preventive military strike against Iraq, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.

6.   Israel has sent a message to Baghdad that it will not launch a preventive strike against Iraq, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.

7.   Remarks Friday by Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder indicated that the Fed might have succeeded in its preventive strike against inflation.

8.   The US defense secretary also said he was not ruling out a US preventive strike to forestall any new Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.