Word: iraq
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There is no hint that the Clinton Administration is even thinking about pulling out. "It would be a mistake for the U.S. to basically change its mission because of this," President Clinton said last week. The missions over Iraq are being flown without interruption. But if American forces are to stay in the gulf, the U.S. will have to defend them better. Fences and concrete barriers protect the Khobar compound, and after the attack in Riyadh, regular patrols were stepped up and lookouts were posted on rooftops. But no American official believed terrorists could strike with an explosion 10 times...
UNITED NATIONS: Several months after Iraq accepted an oil-for-food deal with the U.N, allowing it to sell about $2 billion worth of oil in order to buy much needed food and medicine, the deal is now entangled in U.N. negotiations and a firm U.S. protest over some unusual items on the Iraqi grocery list, specifically computers and oil-drilling and telecommunications equipment. The U.S. is also troubled by Iraq's plan to control distribution of supplies to the beleaguered Kurdish population from Baghdad, since both the U.S. and the U.N. are concerned that the Kurds...
...winemakers in this case were Sumerians living along what is now the Iran-Iraq border at a time when agriculture and permanent human settlements were first being established. "They were clearly a pretty sophisticated people," says McGovern. "They built reasonably complex mud-brick buildings, and we have evidence that they grew barley and wheat." Now we know they also made wine, along with the jars to store it in. Wine and civilization thus seem to have been invented at roughly the same time--a fact that the French, at least, won't find at all surprising...
...Iraq is finally cooperating well enough with United Nations monitoring to be allowed to sell oil for food and medicine. Hearing that news, I couldn't help wondering whether I should have been able to predict some movement toward flexibility in Baghdad when I noticed an Associated Press item last March that began, "Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ordered an end to the practice of cutting off the ears of army deserters and draft dodgers...
...were one of those anonymous State Department analysts we're always reading about, maybe I would have recognized that item from Iraq last March as the first sign of flexibility in Saddam Hussein...