Word: iraq
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Fifteen years ago, when King Fahd was still Crown Prince, he pledged to establish a citizens' consultative council upon ascending Saudi Arabia's throne. But after he came to power in 1982, Fahd found ample excuses to confine decision making within a narrow family circle. Then came Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent arrival of more than 500,000 U.S. troops in the region. While President Bush maintained that Desert Storm was not designed to promote democracy in the gulf's oilagarchies, the campaign to liberate Kuwait prodded conservative Arab rulers to broaden public participation...
Saddam Hussein's Monument: An Exercise inThinking About Cultural Relativism--by KananMakiya, architect and author of Republic of Fearand The Monument: Art, Bulgarity, andResponsibility in Iraq. Wednesday, March 18, 5:30p.m. Moore Room, Building 6, Room 321, MIT. Free...
...statement prepared by the Security Council president contains 15 pages of charges that Iraq has failed to comply with U.N. orders to destroy its terror weapons. A copy of it, to be delivered at today's public council session on Iraq, was obtained by The Associated Press...
Diplomats said Iraq apparently was seeking a partial lifting of the sanctions, in proportion to how much it is obeying the Security Council's cease-fire terms...
...French. British, U.S. and Russian ambassadors said Iraq must meet all its obligations before sanctions can be lifted. "There is no way for a compromise, "Britain's Ambassador David Hannay said. NATION...