Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wording of the resolution had been personally hammered out by Kirkpatrick and Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi during three days of intense negotiations. Iraq had wanted to include a call for sanctions against Israel, but the U.S. made it clear that it would use its veto if they were mentioned. Instead, the approved resolution "strongly condemns" Israel for its raid on the reactor and urges it to pay damages to Iraq, which was "entitled to appropriate redress for the destruction it has suffered." There is nothing that could compel Israel to make such restitution, however, and Blum had already told...
...Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Sigvard Eklund, whose agency was responsible for monitoring the installation, declared that IAEA's inspections made it all but impossible for Iraqi technicians to carry out secret activities. Eklund asserted that any such effort "would be detected with very high probability" by IAEA inspectors or French technicians on the site...
...publisher Stephen Mindich apparently decided long ago he wanted to put out the only alternative paper published in Boston. He succeeded, and now readers will get an unrelieved diet of his inanities (like the reprinted editorials from the New York Post that were the paper's comments on the Iraqi raid), along with some good writing by the more talented members of the regular staff. The richer Phoenix has done the same political fades as the Realp, but their bankroll has allowed them to keep the format much the same as the old days, with longer and more personal pieces...
Italian workers at the center had been completing four new laboratories, including one for fabricating natural uranium fuel. These labs were not hit, nor was an Italian-built "hot cell" lab, where Iraqi technicians could learn the techniques of handling radioactive materials, including theoretically, how to separate tiny amounts of plutonium from spent uranium fuel. Because plutonium can be used to make nuclear weapons its possible production at the Tammuz site was central to the Israelis justification for the raid. The Iraqi-French contract required delivery of 70 kg of 93% enriched U-235 a grade and amount of uranium...
...French, however, insist that any diversion of enriched uranium by the Iraqis for bombmaking, or conversion of the reactor for plutonium production would immediately have been spotted by the 150 French technical advisors at Tammuz or by International Atomic Energy Agency inspector charged with enforcing the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which Iraq signed in 1968. France had taken steps to minimize the possibility that nuclear fuel might be diverted for military purposes. Paris had promised, for example, to deliver only enough enriched uranium in a shipment to keep the reactor going, thus preventing the Iraqis from stockpiling the material. Last June...