Word: aziz
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...first gulf War, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker issued a warning to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz: If Iraq attempted to use unconventional weapons against allied forces, the U.S. would proceed to Baghdad and destroy Saddam's regime. Though the Iraqis used chemical weapons against Iranian forces and rebellious Kurds, Baker's promise was enough to persuade Saddam to hold back during Desert Storm. Now that the current Administration has declared that regime change is its goal, he may not feel so gun-shy. Western military officials and longtime Saddam watchers suggest he won't uncork his deadliest weapons...
...crisis had been nipped in the bud before it escalated. However historians eventually judge the rush of events in the Persian Gulf, few will fairly conclude that what occurred was a failure to communicate. For months, George Bush has agonized that Saddam Hussein has not got the message. Tariq Aziz buried that illusion last week in Geneva... If clarity has been assured, only tragedy remains. Both sides, it seems, are ready for war because neither is willing to suffer a supposedly worse fate--the humiliation that capitulation, or its perception, implies. --TIME...
...here is not a good omen for those rooting for living creatures," said Russian grand master Peter Svidler) and an extraordinary 42 minutes on the seventeenth move. With his clock still running, Kramnik suddenly "popped up from the chessboard," said match commentator Mig Greengard, and ran with his bodyguard Aziz to the bathroom in his boudoir. (Evidently the restroom is a fine place for chess inspiration; one sequence of opening moves is known in the chess literature as the Toilet Variation because that is where its creator came up with it.) When the relaxed-looking champion returned to the board...
...their neighbors. Alevis generally embraced Kemal Ataturk's separation of church and state in the 1930s, but their outsider status drew many to leftist politics. The Alevis in Germany started organizing politically in July 1993, after a mob in the Turkish city of Sivas torched a hotel where satirist Aziz Nesin, known for lampooning religious extremism, was entertaining at an Alevi function. Thirty-seven people died, and images of the "Sivas Martyrs" quickly appeared on the walls of Alevi culture centers across Europe. Says Karan: "Those of us who were born in Germany began to wonder about our identity...
...unconditional” is not at all what either the U.S. or the U.N. inspectors mean. In fact, Monday’s letter already contained a caveat: U.N. inspectors should respect the “sovereignty” of Iraqi lands, which means that once again Hussein, Aziz, et al will try to keep them out of palaces, bunkers and the like. When that happens and the U.S. tries to go back to the U.N. and ask for a Security Council resolution to use force, it will mean there has been only further delay and the Iraqi coalition-splitting tactics...