Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things getting a little tense in a certain embargoed outlaw country? According to a report in the Middle East Economic Survey today, Saddam Hussein has fired Iraq's planning minister for publishing an official report that the nation's inflation has reached astronomical levels -- 24,000 percent. The U.N. trade embargo imposed before the start of the Gulf War seems to be taking its toll: Saddam fired his agriculture minister in May for failing to check the skyrocketing price of food...
...working as spies for the Soviet Union. Hard evidence of Beijing's deepening animus toward Moscow, which President Nixon exploited to forge his 1972 opening to China. Technical data on Soviet-made antitank missiles, which allowed U.S. forces, years later, to defeat those weapons when they were employed by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf...
...Iraq is trying to cozy up to the outside world. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz -- Hussein's slick spokesman during the Gulf War -- spent the weekend begging Greece and Turkey for help in lifting a U.N. embargo that has economically devastated his country...
...Pentagon investigation of the downing of two U.S. Army helicopters by Air Force fighter jets over northern Iraq determined that the accident was caused by multiple human errors. "It's a tragedy that never should have happened," said Defense Secretary William Perry at a news conference. All 26 people aboard the two helicopters were killed...
...race between us is over. The U.S. and Russia are not even aiming missiles at each other. They are aimed at sea, so that even an accidental launch would destroy only fish. The coming threat emanates from elsewhere, from small, determined outlaw states such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq. And before that threat we are helpless...