Word: iraq
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...maintaining its fragile democracy. The independence issue is a backdrop to what Yeltsin reckons to be the higher national interest of preserving the oil supply and thus preserving any progress made by the new democratic Russia. Isn't Yeltsin merely doing what the West did in Kuwait and Iraq...
Christopher also noted that without U.S. leadership, "Iraq might once again be in Kuwait...
...weapons. TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says the vets will have a tough time proving any cause-and-effect in court when the Pentagon itself believes the illnesses have no single cause. Still, Thompson adds, Germany was far less strict than the U.S. about selling multiple-use materials to Iraq in the past, and "whether it's tanks, airplanes or ingredients for poison gas, the bad guys in that drama are clearly the Europeans...
Some of the frictions result simply because certain Russian national interests clash with U.S. policies. Russia has been trying to get the embargo on Iraqi oil sales lifted because the oil revenue is the only way Iraq can pay for arms it buys from the old U.S.S.R., and Moscow needs the money. Financial pressure also underlies Moscow's insistence that any Western companies drilling for oil in Azerbaijan build a pipeline through Russia, a demand that has aborted some promising deals. The U.S. responded calmly to Yeltsin's announcement on Friday that he had authorized the army...
...Force said today that it will court martial Capt. Jim Wang, the chief of the crew on the AWACS plane that failed to warn off two F-15s last April before they shot down two U.S. helicopters over Iraq, killing 26. The Air Force dismissed charges against four other AWACS officers under Wang, who will be tried on three counts of dereliction of duty. If convicted, Wang faces dismissal from the Air Force and up to nine months confinement. The Pentagon's move comes after families of some of those killed in the "friendly fire" incident lashed out publicly against...