Word: aziz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aziz is personable and capable of evasions unrivaled in eloquence. He joked that the U.N. travel ban would allow him to stay home with his children and grandchildren...
...does result in Aziz being grounded in Baghdad, there's no doubt that he made the best use of his last hours behind enemy lines...
...Often ebullient, even jocular, Aziz answered questions with both patient frankness and that skill of diverting discussion to favorable ground that is essential for diplomats who represent dictators...
...Alleging U.S. domination of UNSCOM, Aziz intimated that Iraq had proposed to the U.N. that the crisis could be resolved via a new inspection team composed of representatives from Security Council countries (including the U.S.) in equal proportion ? while insisting that Iraq had nothing to hide on the chemical weapons issue...
...military action, Aziz exhibited the bravado of the doomed: "It makes no difference to Iraq's leadership if another wave of missiles falls on Baghdad, because nothing can be worse than what we are going through at present...