Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added a Kuwait stop to his Middle East tour this week to reaffirm U.S. support for the beleaguered emirate. And to avoid the sort of misunderstandings that may have led to the Gulf War, Bill Clinton issued a clear warning to Saddam: "It would be a grave error for Iraq to repeat the mistakes of the past or to misjudge either American will or American power...
Saddam, alas, is a slow learner who rarely gets the point of any lesson. Apparently his main intent in moving the troops was to pressure the U.N. into lifting its draconian sanctions on Iraq in a forthcoming vote. And he might have achieved this if he had just kept quiet. The U.S. and Britain were the only two permanent members of the Security Council bound to vote to sustain the sanctions. Russia wants Iraq to repay $6 billion in prewar military debts; France seeks to resume lucrative commercial ties with Baghdad; China has weapons to sell to Iraq. "You think...
...luck and the U.N. embargo hold, the pain in Iraq will continue, as will the internal pressure on Saddam. The country is crippled. Such basic goods as medicine and farm supplies cannot come in, and an annual $15 billion worth of oil cannot go out. Malnutrition is rampant; last month the government cut food rations in half. "The people of Iraq are being destroyed by the sanctions," says an Iraqi now living in the U.S. "The social fabric is being torn apart. Iraq has been wounded for four years, and nobody cares...
...nations -- Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait itself -- began deploying much of their 19,000-man "Peninsula Shield" in Kuwait, enough to match the number of U.S. forces now on Kuwaiti soil. Meanwhile, the U.S. operation's Central Command tells TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson that Iraq's forces are in close to full flight back north -- including what is believed to be the best of Saddam's once feared Republican Guard, the Hammurabi Division. The other Guard unit, he says, was sitting around, waiting to get on a train. "A lot of it happened last night," Thompson...
...ensuring the Iraqis don't return, Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright tossed out the idea of a "no-drive" zone in southeastern Iraq. Planes would patrol the region and discourage any traffic in a strip close-in to Kuwait. The notion got a cool response from France and Britain, who had supported a crucial "no-fly zone" after the Gulf War two years ago. Air Force Maj. Gen. Everett Pratt, Jr., commander of all U.S. air forces in the Gulf region, told TIME's Thompson the U.S. could use F-15E and F16 fighter jets to enforce...