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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the antiwar faction, Saddam can be turned back without war, by persistence in the embargo. If only that were true! All too probably, those who make this argument are deluding themselves. Far more likely, if Iraq is still occupying Kuwait next Aug. 2, a year after the invasion, much of the world will conclude that Saddam has won. The embargo will begin leaking badly; nation after nation will start casting around for a diplomatic solution; Washington itself will be under growing pressure to bring G.I.s home from Saudi Arabia where they will have been "sitting around in the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Case for War | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...inevitable clash occurred Aug. 8, the second anniversary of the 1988 massacre. Students and monks demonstrated in Mandalay. When riot police leveled their rifles at rock throwers, a monk tried to intercede. He was hit by a bullet, and 14 other protesters were injured, though the army denies that anyone was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma A People Under Siege | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...what, exactly, has the U.S. committed itself in Saudi Arabia? In an Aug. 9 letter informing Congress of his decision to deploy troops in Saudi Arabia, President Bush referred to "requests" from King Fahd and Kuwait; some three months later, the Administration is still not telling anyone, including the Senate or the House, the nature of the U.S. response. This refusal risks violating the Case-Zablocki Act of 1972, which requires the Secretary of State to submit to Congress within 60 days the substance of all international accords, written or oral. A year ago, failure to do so would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Envelope, Please | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...pair's organizational and diplomatic skills have been strikingly evident since the earliest moments of Desert Shield, which began only a few hours after Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait on Aug. 2. Early the next morning, Cheney tucked a top-secret briefing file under his arm and walked to the small, heavily guarded Current Situation Room on the second floor of the Pentagon. Powell was waiting there for him. Amid the maze of projection screens, television monitors and colored telephones, they drafted the advice on military responses Cheney would offer Bush: the U.S. could -- and must -- defend Saudi Arabia with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready For Action | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

What a difference an invasion makes. The enchanted moment is gone. From stock markets to supermarkets, high anxiety rules the day. Iraq's march into Kuwait on Aug. 2 has proved to be the catalyst that brought the world's ( economic weaknesses to bear all at once: America's profligate spending, Japan's speculative fever, Eastern Europe's huge renovation bill, the Third World's monumental debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Shook Up | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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