Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well as the U.S., has been snubbed. Will Clinton now launch a long-awaited air strike? Not just yet, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. ?In the short term, the administration is going to continue going the diplomatic route. They?re not likely to mount an attack on Iraq at this stage...
...With Iraq in desperate need of positive spin, Tariq Aziz launched a media charm offensive in New York Thursday. Between a slew of talk shows, Saddam's deputy prime minister took coffee with TIME's editors...
...portrayed an Iraq driven to desperate measures by six years of sanctions: "We know and you know America does not support the lifting of sanctions until the Iraqi leadership has gone," he insisted. "The arms inspectors are there to procrastinate...
...Alleging U.S. domination of UNSCOM, Aziz intimated that Iraq had proposed to the U.N. that the crisis could be resolved via a new inspection team composed of representatives from Security Council countries (including the U.S.) in equal proportion ? while insisting that Iraq had nothing to hide on the chemical weapons issue...
...military action, Aziz exhibited the bravado of the doomed: "It makes no difference to Iraq's leadership if another wave of missiles falls on Baghdad, because nothing can be worse than what we are going through at present...