Word: iraq
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Another stereotype is the idea that the UN is not cost-effective. To resolve the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the UN spent money equal to the value of two tankers worth of crude oil, he said...
...been forced to accept that the reservations expressed by its European and Arab allies over bombing - and the resultant removal of United Nations weapons monitors - may have been correct. So with the U.N. Security Council meeting Friday or Saturday to adopt a resolution easing some sanctions against Iraq in exchange for Baghdad's accepting a new monitoring system, Defense Secretary William Cohen has been drumming up domestic support for a shift by insisting that the key to stopping Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction is to have monitors on the ground in Iraq - exactly the argument used...
Meanwhile, the opposition-run areas complain that the state-run oil company refuses to give them any fuel at all. And Belgrade is saying it has solved the heating problem in the rest of the country by making deals with Slovakia and Iraq, exchanging Serbian copper, food and medicine for Slovak electricity and Saddam Hussein's oil. In the end, it seems that the people most likely to shiver this winter are the ones who voted against Milosevic...
...regular sorties carried out by the U.S. and its allies in the ongoing attempt to oust Iraq's Saddam Hussein [WORLD, Nov. 8] only contribute to the miseries of the Iraqi populace. If the U.S. has not been able to replace Fidel Castro in Cuba, why should it think it can overthrow a leader like Saddam, who is liked by the people? No amount of bombing or propaganda will undo things so easily. I want the bombings to stop and all sanctions to be lifted. Allow the Iraqis to lead peaceful lives. Americans should ask Congress to stop funding unnecessary...
...Meanwhile, the opposition-run areas complain that the state-run oil company refuses to give them any fuel at all. And Belgrade is saying it has solved the heating problem in the rest of the country by making deals with Slovakia and Iraq, exchanging Serbian copper, food and medicine for Slovak electricity and Saddam Hussein's oil. In the end, it seems that the people most likely to shiver this winter are the ones who voted against Milosevic...