Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faced with the long-range bombing efforts of Dartmouth last night, Harvard's offense looked as feeble in attempting to repulse the northern invaders as the Iraqi air defense...
...month ago, Clinton was within minutes of launching a similar attack when Saddam Hussein vowed full compliance with United Nations weapons inspectors. Clinton vowed it would be the last chance for Hussein to make such a promise. Now that the Iraqi leader has again failed to let the U.N. representatives do their work-as made clear in a report submitted Tuesday by Richard Butler, the chief U.N. weapons inspector-the time has passed for brokering with Iraq...
...Middle East. In this light, the most troubling question we have is whether Operation Desert Fox, planned to last just four days, will have a great enough impact on Iraq's capacity for harm. We hope President Clinton has a strategy for dealing with Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi threat that extends beyond the next three days...
...world of diplomacy, things are not always as they seem. As Iraqis counted casualties, assessed damage and faced another round of strikes on Thursday, the U.S. found support and criticism in familiar places. Britain, Germany and Canada backed the U.S.-led action. The Arab League condemned the attacks. Security Council members Russia and China angrily denounced the U.S.for going over the U.N.'s head, and France chimed in as well. But while the French government deplored "the grave human consequences" of the military action, it also noted the Iraqi leaders' inability "to show proof of the spirit of complete cooperation...
...carefully calibrated French reaction is significant, notes TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. "What may be little known is that President Clinton and French president Chirac have consulted regularly and at length on the phone as the Iraqi crisis has unfolded in the past few months." As a result of these close consultations, the two countries have been able to play a good-cop, bad-cop role with Saddam that's allowed the French to give "friendly advice" to Saddam -- backed by the U.S. military. That kind of cooperation has averted strikes in the past. While the French are espousing...