Word: iraqi
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Happy anniversary, drivers! Just a year after Iraqi troops conquered Kuwait and gasoline prices began spiking, a new study by oil historian Daniel Yergin says pretax, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices are at their lowest point since 1947. Even with recent increases in federal and state fuel taxes, gasoline costs Americans 44% less in real terms than it did in 1980, and, surprisingly, 24% less than it did in the halcyon days of 1960, before anyone had heard of Saddam Hussein or OPEC. Of course, what consumers pay at the pump does not factor in the real environmental and military costs...
Saddam Hussein is a lucky man. When the United Nations gave the Iraqi leader until July 25 to reveal once and for all the scope of his country's weapons program, George Bush backed up the deadline with the threat of a military strike. But that was before Secretary of State James Baker's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East began to show promise. When the deadline passed last week, Washington charged that Baghdad had still not come clean. But the military threat against Saddam is on hold -- at least for the moment...
Mounting concern for the plight of hungry Iraqi citizens is also forcing Washington and its European allies to temper their hard-line stance on continued economic sanctions. The drumbeat to ease the embargo began when Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, who heads the U.N.'s relief efforts in the gulf, warned that food and medicine shortages presented "a humanitarian crisis that could degenerate into a catastrophe." His recommendation: a U.N.-regulated sale of Iraqi oil to raise $2.6 billion, enough to cover humanitarian needs for the next four months. Last week the Bush Administration reluctantly supported a one-time-only...
...very expensive and produces enriched uranium only slowly and in small quantities. For Saddam, however, calutrons had advantages. The technology had been declassified and was discussed freely in scientific journals. The imported components had legitimate industrial uses and did not raise eyebrows in the West; better yet, Iraqi industry could produce most of the necessary components itself. Calutrons gulp enormous amounts of electricity, and the power lines to supply it should have been visible in satellite photographs. But since nobody in the West dreamed that Saddam would resurrect calutron technology, the interpreters of satellite pictures, if they saw such evidence...
...haven't talked even on the telephone since the first few days of his occupation of Kuwait. From time to time, an Iraqi official passes by. I am very frank in expressing my views...