Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear after the Gulf War that Saddam Hussein wouldn't just let things be. Now is the time to put an end to all this." KARI PATILA Joutseno, Finland...
TEHRAN: Too good to be true? Curiously co-incidental detentes may be breaking out between the U.S. and its Persian Gulf bugaboos, Iran and Iraq. To wit: Iranian President Mohammed Khatami says he wants to talk ? and according to TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod, it's a genuine offer. Meanwhile Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is embroiled in potentially positive discussions with Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector, over opening up more sites to inspectors of all nations ? even American ones...
...first time the two sides have sat down to talk weapons since last month's standoff is progress in itself. The U.N. chief says we'll know in the next couple of days whether Iraq will consent to having its 60-odd palatial compounds inspected. Peace in the Gulf ? just in time for the holidays...
WASHINGTON: Already accustomed to more needles than a porcupine, military personnel will soon be getting an anthrax vaccination ? a shot, some vets claim, that contributed to Gulf War Syndrome. The Pentagon plans to inoculate all 1.5 million men and women in the armed forces against the deadly anthrax spores...
...Concerned about biological warfare in the weeks and months preceding the Gulf War, the Defense Department pumped soldiers full of vaccines designed to protect against everything from botulinum toxin to anthrax ? a chemical cocktail that some charge caused illnesses after...