Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That left diplomacy, which the White House began intensely two weekends ago when Clinton telephoned Russian President Boris Yeltsin to give him the green light to find a way out of the crisis. Eager to have the U.N. sanctions lifted so that Russia could trade with Iraq, Yeltsin summoned Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to Moscow. Meanwhile, Albright warned Primakov that even though Clinton was also eager to have a solution, Washington wanted nothing less than Saddam's complete capitulation. There could be no deals like Baghdad's previous offer to allow only a few Americans back...
Albright, who is on a first-name basis with Primakov, was nevertheless wary. "Yevgeni, I hope you understand where our red lines are," she warned. "The only thing we're going to accept is unconditional Iraqi compliance." The one bone Moscow had thrown Saddam was to lobby for Iraq in the Security Council, Primakov assured her. "I entered into no obligations on behalf of anyone else...
...kept a phone line open to the palace. Clinton, who was watching the new film Welcome to Sarajevo in the White House family quarters, slipped away from the screening twice for updates on developments in Geneva. Albright demanded that the adjective "unconditional" be inserted in one phrase spelling out Iraqi acceptance of U.N. inspections. In another paragraph, the Americans added that the team would look for ways to make its "work more effective"--diplomatic code words for hunting for weapons in more places...
...million: Number of barrels of Iraqi oil imported...
...Barrels of Iraqi oil imported...