Word: iraq
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Attorney General Janet Reno is expected to release a report within weeks on Iraqgate that is intended to help clarify just what role, if any, the Reagan and Bush administrations played in allowing Iraq to secure loans and military equipment before the Gulf War. Justice Department sources say that no further indictments in the scandal are expected and that no large conspiracy by Bush Administration officials was found by Justice's task force of lawyers and investigators. Predicts a Justice insider: "Bill Safire will be disappointed...
...dislodge Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, but the alliance probably never would have come together if the sanctions that preceded the conflict had not invested America and its partners with a common sense of frustration at Baghdad's refusal to budge in the absence of force. The need to repel Iraq was appreciated because the world wanted the Middle East's oil at affordable prices and didn't want Saddam brandishing weapons of mass destruction. Today the nightmare scenarios of nuclear-weapons proliferation and regional instability in Asia may soon be seen to justify a second Korean...
WASHINGTON -- New evidence presented by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee at a hearing last week shows the U.S. government approved the sale to Iraq of biological agents that could have caused the mysterious GULF WAR SYNDROME that has afflicted thousands of U.S. troops. Buried within a 151-page report released at the hearing was the committee's first-time identification of 73 government-approved shipments of biological agents to Iraq from two U.S. companies during the five years that preceded the war. The report also states: "Some of the symptoms experienced by veterans suffering from Persian Gulf...
...human rights and trade. First, in threatening to throttle America's growing commerce with China because Beijing oppresses its citizens, the U.S. has stood alone. "No other nation agreed with us," said Clinton. "It wasn't like there was a big multinational coalition; it's not like sanctions on Iraq." Only America has annually debated forgoing trade with a nation that will spend more than $1 trillion during the next decade on infrastructure projects alone. Only America would permit moral considerations to preclude a company like Boeing from making a fortune in China. As everyone else has rushed to embrace...
...rule, one surrounding Jericho in the West Bank, the other covering most of the Gaza Strip. In both areas, civilian affairs were turned over to P.L.O. control, as was public order and safety. To replace the occupying forces, some 3,000 Palestinian troops, arriving from exile mostly in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, were put to work as soldiers and policemen -- a force that is to eventually grow...