Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal law enforcement will be handed a full plate of problems that extend back a decade. Among them: the continuing Iran-contra probe, the scandal involving the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, and lingering questions over Justice's role in the investigation of money and arms transfers to Iraq. Beyond that, the Attorney General will be called upon to rein in many of the country's 94 U.S. Attorneys, whose offices have in recent years been repeatedly charged with bending legal guidelines in the zeal to advance careers with heavy conviction rates...
...heavy politics, which have pitted faculty members against faculty members, faculty member against students and, perhaps most viciously of all, students against student. Relations have broken down so completely that Dean Clark recently appointed Professor Emeritus Roger Fisher, the famed negotiator who has attempted to reconcile Kuwait and Iraq, to act as a kind of marriage counselor for the law school 'community...
...wielding a veto that the U.S. has not used for 2 1/2 years -- and pray that the results do not disrupt the Middle East peace talks. Playing the ace would be awkward at a time when Washington needs the U.N. imprimatur for its own course of discipline against Iraq...
Although these penalties are relatively mild, Israeli officials are enraged at the very prospect of facing U.N. sanctions. "To put us in the same category as Iraq, Serbia and Libya -- it's unacceptable," says Rabin's spokesman, Gad Ben-Ari. "We've not swallowed another country or massacred thousands of people or harbored terrorists who blew up a packed airplane." To . block approval, Jerusalem has embarked on an intensive lobbying effort. Rabin took the unusual step of calling all ambassadors accredited to Israel to a late-night meeting at his office in Tel Aviv. There, they were served cold sodas...
Others argue that experimentation could be in order. "For two years," says Anthony Cordesman, professor of national-security studies at Georgetown University, "Bush fixated on ousting Saddam, without defining U.S. goals in case he didn't." If compliance with the U.N. resolutions could earn Iraq some easing of the sanctions, even with Saddam still in power, he should be told...