Word: aug
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...Security Council last Aug. 6 ordered all member states to cut off trade and financial dealings with Iraq. Only nine days later, George Bush said in a speech at the Pentagon, "Sanctions are working." But last month Secretary of State James Baker was telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "They haven't worked." Behind this seeming flip-flop were differing interpretations of what it means for sanctions to work...
...enforcement agencies scrambling. Last week the government ordered stepped- up security at airports and told nuclear plants to be on guard. Federal agents are photographing and fingerprinting everyone entering the U.S. on Iraqi or Kuwaiti passports. Thousands of the Kuwaiti documents were confiscated by Iraqi occupation forces after the Aug. 2 invasion...
...early-morning assault was the climax to a crisis that had built over more than five months, after Iraq's President Saddam Hussein ordered a lightning invasion of neighboring Kuwait on Aug...
...Aug. 30, 1982, a well-dressed Palestinian from Iraq named Adnan Awad walked into the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and announced that he had just left a bomb in his Geneva hotel room. He said he had been ordered by the May 15 Organization, a Baghdad-based terrorist group known to intelligence agencies, to blow up the Geneva Noga Hilton. But when he arrived in Geneva, he found he could not go through with it. Now he was appealing to the U.S. for help...
...arrested in Tunisia with a suitcase bomb like Awad's. Under interrogation, the man admitted that he and another May 15 member, called Abu Saif, had put a bomb on a Pan Am flight from London's Heathrow Airport to New York. The bomb had been found on Aug. 25, 14 days and 40,000 miles later, unexploded, when the aircraft landed in Rio de Janeiro. It had not blown up because the bombers inadvertently broke off the safety pin, leaving the tip stuck in the bomb...