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...working half time; the nation's largest textile plant is said to be operating only eight hours a week. Egyptian laborers returning from Iraq report that bakers are being forced to mix barley with scarce flour to make a tasteless bread. As if to confirm such reports of hardship, Saddam Hussein's government last week decreed the death penalty for hoarders of wheat, barley, rice, flour and maize...
...Iraq working? Depends partly on what is meant by working, an ill-defined concept. But if State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler is correct in stating that "the aim of these sanctions is to change the behavior of the government of Iraq," the answer is no. The embargo is causing hardship all right, but the deprivation is probably not severe enough to force Iraq to pull out of Kuwait, at least not within any time frame that the Bush Administration could accept...
...Iraq and Kuwait is buffeting a lot of people, from U.S. manufacturers of oil-field equipment to Irish meat producers to Italian shipbuilders. If U.N. sanctions produced a cutoff in trade with Iraq, they also led Iraq to suspend payment on outstanding debts. The result is dislocation and even hardship among Iraq's erstwhile commercial partners...
...covered by Hermes Kreditversicherung AG, the German state export-insurance program, but as much as $1.2 billion in trade with Iraq and Kuwait is not insured. Large diversified conglomerates like Daimler-Benz, Mannesmann and Ferrostaal can absorb such shortfalls, but smaller firms with proportionately larger exposure are talking about hardship and calling for a government bailout...
...reduction this year, most of the participants from both parties assumed at first that the Department of Defense would have to accept major spending cuts. But then came the gulf conflict, and the hoped- for peace dividend began to fade. Budget summiteers made an implicit agreement not to wreak hardship on the military. In the end, the budget resolution set Pentagon spending for fiscal 1991 at $288.3 billion, a reduction of $19 billion from the President's request...