Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote on impeachment was planned for today, but postponed last night by the House leadership after American forces began bombing Iraq...
...feel like victory to ordinary Iraqis. But although President Clinton says this trip was necessary in order for UN inspectors to be able to do their jobs, this may mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection is now over. A more violent -- and less effective -- era of containing Saddam is now under...
...going to see a long period of repeated, persistent bombings that will be based on much less information." How long Americans and the international community will stand behind such a messy and protracted campaign, Thompson says, "is anybody's guess. But it's going to continue until either Iraq changes its ways -- or the U.S. gives...
...almost midnight, and George Bush is asleep in his Moscow hotel suite when plainclothes police bang on the door. Through an interpreter from the Russian Foreign Ministry, they announce that they are placing the visiting former U.S. President under arrest on an extradition request from Iraq. He is charged with war crimes, including an air attack during the Gulf War that targeted an underground bomb shelter and killed hundreds of civilians...
Then there was the fellow from California who was searching for a 1956 story "about a young woman and her son who escaped Iraq and a horrible marriage." Only after we sent a copy of the story did he reveal to us that "the little boy in the photo is me." Another photo intrigued an Argentine woman who asked about a picture in our 75th-anniversary issue showing a little girl receiving a polio shot. Even though the caption said the photo was taken in Alabama, and our reader had no recollection of ever having lived there, she thought, just...