Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around 8 o'clock in the evening of Feb. 24, 1991, and Arthur Colbert was lost. Most of the rest of the world was focused on the Persian Gulf, where the ground war had begun only hours earlier, but Colbert had a woman on his mind. His date for the night lived in a Philadelphia neighborhood known for its crime and poverty, and Colbert couldn't find her house. Then he got lucky--or so he thought. A police wagon was idling down the block, and Colbert got out of his dark blue 1985 Toyota Camry to ask directions. Inside...
...inspections and sanctions in six months, threatened again to shoot down the U-2 reconnaissance plane that periodically photographs his key installations and then invited foreign diplomats and scholars to visit his presidential palaces as "guests" (the same term he used for his hostages before the Gulf War). But of course, he added, the expert inspectors of the U.N. Special Commission must stay...
...continuing to build up its forces, mainly air power, in the gulf region but shows no eagerness to use them. How, then, can Saddam be forced to open his doors to the inspectors searching for his hidden arsenal of poison and germs? As Richard Butler, head of the Special Commission, and Defense Secretary William Cohen both stressed last week, the issue is not just Iraq. It is how the world will try to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction for decades to come...
...major problem remains how to coerce Saddam. It does not appear that the U.S. has made up its mind on that. American ships and planes are coiled up in the gulf, ready to spring, but the Pentagon has been putting out mixed signals on the use of force. "This is a long-term project," said Secretary Cohen, and could first involve more pressure. "It might be a tightening of further sanctions," Cohen said. He called military action "a last option," but if it is needed, "you can be reasonably assured it will not be a pinprick." "No more pinpricks," echoed...
...moderate Arab governments had stood up Albright last month at an economic summit in Doha in Qatar in order to express their displeasure at Washington?s performance in the Mideast peace process. Many observers believe this gathering will reinforce calls within the administration for a rethink of Mideast and Gulf policies: The recent Gulf crisis showed not only that Washington has little support in Europe and the Arab world for its Iran and Iraq policies but also that President Clinton?s perceived failure to press Benjamin Netanyahu to comply with Israeli-Palestinian accords has made Arab governments leery of signing...