Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After televising the capture of American POW's Arnett said General. Norman Schwarzkopf criticized him for jeopardizing the U.S. military effort in Iraq...
Three years ago this month, on the night the U.S. launched an air war against Iraq, I scampered through Harvard Square in the rain, reporter's notebook in hand, recording the reactions of random members of the Harvard community, asking stupid questions like, "So, what do you think...
...vacationing at an unknown location somewhere outside Moscow. Left behind at the Liberal Democrats' headquarters were several dozen staff members -- mostly bullish young men not unlike the 10 "soldiers" whom Zhirinovsky, clad in fatigues, had sent off from the Moscow airport last January to "fight American imperialism" in Iraq. Two floors below, a store called the Rock Shop hawked copies of his newspapers (Zhirinovsky's Falcon and Zhirinovsky's Truth), as well as cassettes by heavy-metal groups like Anthrax and Pestilence. Visitors could also purchase copies of his autobiography, Last Thrust to the South...
...years. The immediate reason was that the 12-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, meeting in Vienna just before Thanksgiving, could not agree on a plan to cut production. Output from non-OPEC sources is rising too, and there is a possibility that United Nations sanctions against Iraq will be eased, allowing some Iraqi oil to flow abroad again. All that adds to a heavy surplus of supply over demand...
...Three years after a trade embargo began crushing its economy, Iraq quietly agreed to U.N. monitoring of its industrial base to prevent any attempt to reacquire weapons of mass destruction. Baghdad demanded an immediate lifting of sanctions against purchase of Iraqi oil, once its main source of foreign revenue. But Washington, among others, called for further proof of cooperation before allowing such a move...