Word: iraq
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...YORK CITY: Five years to the day after the United States launched its ferocious air attack on Iraq, the man George Bush called a new Hitler is still in power. And Bush, the undisputed victor in the war, is not. Tonight, President Bush will admit in a Public Broadcasting Service television interview with David Frost: "I miscalculated," a reference to his decision to stop short of driving Hussein from power when he had the chance. Says President Bush: "I thought he'd be gone." TIME's Edward Barnes, who covered the war for LIFE Magazine, reports that this is only...
...Iraq's Ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, announced on Tuesday that Iraq would finally accede to a United Nations demand to spend oil revenue for needed food and medical supplies for its beleaguered population. But it was not clear that Iraq has made a firm decision. The international embargo on Iraq, first imposed in August of 1990, has devastated the Iraqi economy. Until now, Hussein has refused the UN offer to allow Iraq to sell a billion dollars of oil every 90 days because of the monitoring strings attached. As a result of Hamdoon's announcement, the price...
...says Holbrooke, "is that many Representatives are so new that they've never had to cast a pure national security vote." Indeed, 210 of the House's 435 members (including 134 Republicans) weren't in Congress in 1991, when it narrowly voted to support George Bush's war against Iraq. "Most of them," says Holbrooke, "don't like spending money on anything, view all issues as partisan fights and have never had to wrestle with something like Bosnia...
...United Nations organizations, which are diffuse and disorganized." UNICEF's new ten-point anti-war plan calls for systematic reporting of war crimes against women and children, moves to discourage child conscription, to monitor the effects of economic sanctions on children, and to ban land mines. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iran sometimes sent armies of children through Iraqi minefields, sacrificing them in order to make a safe pathway for troops...
...most importantly, the Cadets showed about as much skill as Iraq's infantry. Army shot 56.8 percent from the free-throw line--41.2 percent in the first half--and connected on less than 35 percent of its field goals...