Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration publicly let their guard down. Indeed, Defense Secretary William Perry reportedly is headed to Kuwait. The United Nations Security Council, meanwhile, spent the day hashing out ideas to nudge Saddam Hussein's men back toward Baghdad, including declaring a wide off-limits zone in southern Iraq and pressing Saddam to sell $1.6 billion worth of oil and use the proceeds to feed the Iraqi people...
...report released today says about 2.5 million children, pregnant women and nursing mothers face severe malnutrition because of food shortages in Iraq. The U.N. Children's Fund said the Iraqi government's recent cutbacks in food rations are responsible; Baghdad blamed the cutbacks on a poor harvest and on U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
...obviously itched to get back into the main ring even while Republicans held the White House. He told the New York Times he had written to Deng Xiaoping and Francois Mitterrand urging a vote against the U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq. That attempt to undermine the policy of his own country's government was, Carter conceded, "perhaps not appropriate...
...Washington promised more than it could deliver. The military has not proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...
...Force brought 26 charges of negligent homicide and two charges of dereliction of duty against the senior F-15 pilot involved in the downing of two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq last April. Also charged with dereliction of duty were five members of an AWACs radar-plane crew. Twenty-six people died in the tragedy...