Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LaRouche said he will rebuild the transportation grid, with an emphasis on the rail system, push for fusion energy and institute a "science-driver, to fuel industrial productivity, such as a long-range buildup toward the colonization of Mars...
...than $4 billion in illegal loans that helped finance Baghdad's purchase of equipment with potential military applications. Officials at the Departments of State, Commerce, Defense and Energy who monitored "dual use" & sales, which amounted to $500 million between 1985 and 1990, knew they were helping Saddam's military buildup but grew uneasy at signs that some U.S. devices were making their way into Saddam's nuclear and missile programs. Bush's policy of favoring Iraq persuaded them to resolve some cases in Baghdad's favor...
...exactly what the U.S. signaled to him just before the invasion -- the question raised by Perot -- may have been irrelevant. As it was, the U.S. watched the buildup of Iraqi troops on the Kuwaiti border without any strong reaction. When U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie was abruptly summoned to a meeting with Saddam in late July as he threatened war, she told him that the U.S. "took no position" on the substance of his border dispute with Kuwait but also "that we can never excuse settlement of disputes by other than peaceful means." The same cautious message was conveyed to Saddam...
Isaacson attributes the collapse of detente and the beginning of a decade of arms buildup to the political backlash that occurred because of Kissinger's indifference to human rights and obsessive secretiveness, but he also puts considerable blame on Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson and his aide Richard Perle, who later joined the Reagan Administration. In 1974 Jackson and Perle, who were opposed to detente, held the treaty granting the Soviet Union most-favored nation trading status hostage to Soviet agreement to allow expanded Jewish emigration. The Soviets retaliated by shutting off emigration and also, as Isaacson argues, by giving...
...District Judge Marvin Shoob allows Drogoul to change his plea this week, it is sure to re-open questions about the government's awareness of the financial chicanery surrounding Iraq's military buildup. Though a retrial by jury would be months away, the specter of the "Iraq-gate" scandal would surely hang, unresolved, over the Bush White House until well after the November election...