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Such appeals, which continued up to the eve of the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, skewed U.S. assessments toward an unrealistically sanguine view of Iraq. The Reagan Administration seemed only too eager to accept the optimistic appraisals, which provided a basis, albeit shaky, for its -- and later the Bush Administration's -- inclination to play down Saddam's human-rights violations and bellicose rhetoric because of Iraq's strategic importance. A senior State Department official reflects on the lesson: "One of the things we've probably learned is to put more stock in our own analysis and less confidence in what other...
Your article titled "Seniors Unfazed by News" (Feb. 25) struck me and several of my friends as unbelievably skewed. The Radcliffe Senior Soiree has nothing to do with the war. Senior women and their dates should not be presented as thoughtless socialites enjoying themselves on the eve of international disaster because they attended a social event that had been organized long before even the January 15 U.N. deadline. You completely missed the point of the soiree, and misrepresented the evening, as it was enjoyed by most everybody there...
...cable to Moscow this way: "There are certain promising signs." After our conversation on the night of Feb. 12, Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz told me about the decision of the Iraqi leadership to send him to the Soviet Union to continue the contacts. Three days later, on the eve of Aziz's arrival in Moscow, the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq issued its sensational statement, acknowledging for the first time its readiness to pull Iraqi troops out of Kuwait...
...eve of his meeting with Bush, Gorbachev talked with his advisers until well after midnight. He once again focused on stepping up efforts to resolve the Palestinian problem in order to get Iraq out of Kuwait. In other words, we should ensure that Saddam's withdrawal was unconditional but also state definitively that such a move would open the way for a more active search for a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was not a question of adopting Saddam's plan of Aug. 12, in which he specifically linked an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories...
Fass said she wanted to stop people from doing the usual things on the eve of war. While fighting is going on thousands of miles away, Americans shouldn't just "go to work, go to school, get their nails done and go home and watch TV," she said...