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...prospect of Saddam Hussein retaining his vast arsenal and direct access to a majority of the world's oil reserves is fraught with even greater danger, and the consequences of not taking action now will likely be far more catastrophic...

Author: By Joseph Enis, | Title: War in the Gulf: A Necessary Evil | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...already been adopted. Certainly, the margins of passage in each house were far from overwhelming. But a majority of representatives understand that sanctions alone will not work. In the absence of abject Iraqi surrender, Iraq's forces must be dislodged from Kuwait by military means and Saddam Hussein's arsenal utterly destroyed...

Author: By Joseph Enis, | Title: War in the Gulf: A Necessary Evil | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

That Saddam intends to develop a nuclear arsenal is doubted by no one. He has openly bragged that Iraq will be the first Arab nation to wield an atom bomb. But most experts -- including those in the Administration -- believe that Bush is greatly overstating the immediate danger posed by Iraq's nuclear arms program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will Saddam Get the Bomb? | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...Jesuits still too political? "To be human is to be political," responds the order's assistant general, American John O'Callaghan. In any event, Jesuit activism no longer seems to worry John Paul so much, just so long as doctrines supportive of Marxism are eliminated from the society's arsenal of teachings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Making Up with the Jesuits | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...desperate need to placate the Arab members of the anti-Saddam coalition. Certainly Saddam was doing his best to pull them into his orbit by exploiting the calamity in Jerusalem. The Iraqi President threatened to avenge the Palestinian deaths with powerful missiles he claimed to have added to his arsenal. Calling his new device the "Stone" (after the weapon of preference in the intifadeh), Saddam boasted that it had a range of hundreds of miles and could therefore hit "the targets of evil when the day of reckoning comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East Saddam's Lucky Break | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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