Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Criticizing American support for military action in Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua and Iraq, Carter pointed out that "in none of these cases was Camp David or any other venue used to avoid conflict...
...into a smooth diplomat more at home on the international stage than on the streets of Madrid. Last year, brushing off opinion polls that showed most Spaniards opposed the gulf war, he allowed the country's air bases to be used as launching pads for U.S. bombing raids against Iraq. Eventually, domestic opposition faded, and Spanish prestige in the international arena rose, heightened by Madrid's success in hosting last fall's Arab-Israeli peace talks...
During the gulf war, American commanders announced that allied aircraft had knocked out 30 fixed and 16 mobile Scud missile launchers. Iraq contends that coalition forces failed to hit a single one of its launchers. A spokesman for the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq said last week that some launchers had been destroyed under U.N. supervision and that the Iraqis claimed to have scrapped the rest on their own. There was no evidence to disprove the Iraqi claim. In Washington, the Pentagon's Pete Williams conceded that damage to the Scuds "was less than we previously thought...
...mechanisms to carry it out. The old idea was that outsiders had no business interfering with anything a government might do within its borders to its own people. That principle has been shattered within the past 13 months by two events: the dispatch of a U.N. force to northern Iraq to protect Kurds from massacre by Saddam Hussein's forces (the Kurds have since set up what amounts to an autonomous zone there); and the arrival, however tardy, of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Croatia while the Croats were still fighting to break free from Belgrade...
...green heart. Collor named Jose Lutzenberger, one of the world's foremost champions of rain-forest preservation, head of a new environment secretariat. The President also vowed to reverse decades of untrammeled development that destroyed 415,000 sq km (160,000 sq. mi.) -- an area the size of Iraq -- of the Amazon rain forest. He blew up airstrips used by gold miners who had invaded Yanomami Indian lands in the country's far north and made recognition of native territorial claims a top priority. The most visible symbol of environmental progress could be seen by satellite: the rate of destruction...