Word: iraq
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BAGHDAD: It will all end in tears, and very possibly cruise missiles. Iraq is refusing to back down in the weapons crisis standoff ? and President Clinton is acting extremely pessimistic about his options. "No I don't," he enunciated slowly and clearly when asked Friday if he saw any reason for hope...
...Noises from the other side are also less than encouraging. U.N. envoys left Iraq empty-handed Friday after Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz offered nothing but accusations: The U.S. is using the crisis as an excuse to attack; The U.S. is using U-2 flights to prepare for that attack; The U.S. is dominating U.N. weapons inspections teams...
Staring down Saddam in Iraq-U.N. standoff (TIME Daily...
...near-absolute monarch, ascended to the throne at the age of 17 in 1953. He has since proven to be a formidable and astute monarch. While Jordan has not been a source of natural oil reserves, and has the unfortunate geographical position of being wedged between Israel and Iraq, King Hussein has managed to both modernize his country and maintain a balancing act between the Israelis and the Arab world, perhaps the most successful Arab leader to do so to date...
...Iraq and Syria each have one student in the University. The Iraqi student is in the School of Public Health, and the Syrian student is enrolled at the Law School...