Word: aziz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weapons to sell to Iraq. "You think they'd be on their best behavior when the U.N. has their fate in their hands," a Navy officer said, "but no, the Iraqis do just the opposite." The feisty speech given at the U.N. by Saddam's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz seemed to cinch the vote against the Iraqis. A U.N. official commented, "The Americans could not have had a better stroke of luck than Tariq Aziz's speech...
Iraq is trying to cozy up to the outside world. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz -- Hussein's slick spokesman during the Gulf War -- spent the weekend begging Greece and Turkey for help in lifting a U.N. embargo that has economically devastated his country...
This week, as he does every 60 days, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz will meet with the U.N. sanctions committee in New York City to argue for an end to the embargo. His previous entreaties were flatly rejected, but this time he will find growing support. Three of the five permanent members -- France, Russia and China -- want the trade bans eased. All three stand to win lucrative contracts to repair Iraq's infrastructure. France and Russia, among Saddam's major prewar trading partners, hope Baghdad could begin paying off its massive debts...
...Aziz's mother Halima, 50, told how the family fled their home in the village of Simsim, just northeast of the Gaza Strip in Israel, when she was a little girl during the 1948 war. "Since 1948 we have never been happy," she said. "We have no land, no security, no hope, no future." When the Aziz family set up a small T shirt-printing shop in 1989, the Israeli occupation authorities imposed taxes she says they could not afford to pay. In 1991 Anwar was arrested as a suspected Islamic Jihad supporter, and spent two years in prison...
...Aziz shared a four-room cement blockhouse with 16 relatives. The room he lived in with his wife and two young children is decorated with the wooden model of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, which he completed in prison. Intissar, Aziz's 22-year-old widow, said, "The day of Anwar's martyrdom was the happiest day of our marriage...