Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraq's close neighbors aren't that concerned about the threat of biological or chemical weapons, maybe we shouldn't be either." SCOTT FIESTHUMEL Utica...
...have a President who is not free to focus fully upon complicated issues and govern this nation during a crisis like the one with Iraq [CLINTON'S CRISES, March 2]. He has been sacrificed by a judiciary bowing to political and prurient interest. America's hard-won heritage of freedom and privacy has been permanently excised, and there has been a rebirth of the Inquisition by an obviously partisan prosecutor. KATHLEEN NELSON Tucson, Ariz...
...remember British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's return from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. Chamberlain said there would be "peace for our time." And in 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and World War II began. Let us remember why we have arrived at this point with Iraq. It is because Saddam and his clique have not kept their side of the bargain reached after the Gulf War. A signature on a piece of paper is meaningless. What matters is the character of the person signing it. History repeats itself. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan seems as naive...
...storm is brewing at the U.N. over just how many secret deals Secretary-General KOFI ANNAN may have made in Baghdad in order to defuse the crisis with Iraq. While Annan has insisted that he has no intention of weakening the U.N. Special Commission, the group that is tracking down SADDAM HUSSEIN's weapons, two developments this week have called UNSCOM's future effectiveness into question. First, Annan stationed a special U.N. representative in Baghdad. That will provide the Iraqis with an alternate channel of communications that may circumvent UNSCOM. Second, Annan is seriously considering a Russian proposal that...
...stands to profit most from the expansion of the Oil for Food program the U.N. put into place just before Kofi Annan went to Baghdad? The new plan will allow Iraq to increase its sales to roughly half the amount of oil it was pumping before the Gulf War. As it turns out, France and Russia pushed the program much harder than Iraq, which initially feared this option would reduce pressure to get sanctions lifted. But Saddam Hussein realized that the more cash he could earn to buy food to keep Iraqis from starving, the more hard currency reserves -- into...