Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back in school taking the big exam? Bill Clinton is having one of those right now: he's trying to pass a test in which every possible answer seems wrong. But the President's bad dream is all too real. And it has a name: Saddam Hussein. When the Iraqi nemesis bared his fangs at Clinton and the U.N. last week--expelling American weapons inspectors from Iraq, threatening to shoot down U-2 surveillance planes and daring the world to do something about it--he precipitated the gravest international crisis of Clinton's presidency. American and U.N. officials believe Saddam...
BAGHDAD: Peace in our time? The Iraqi News Agency today reported the news everyone?s been waiting for three weeks to hear: all United Nations weapons inspectors, including the American contingent, will be allowed back into the country to continue their work. The White House is still somewhat skeptical, but it seems almost certain that Saddam has stepped down from the standoff...
...Russians will work on their behalf to implement the crucial article 22 of U.N. resolution 687 ? which, of course, you know by heart ? and its promise to end sanctions once Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction are neutralized. Saddam?s happy because he gets to look heroic to the Iraqi people, and didn?t have to deal directly with the hated Americans. Clinton should be happy, because he didn?t blink and the return of inspectors is unconditional. Who?d have thought ? a rational solution in the Gulf that doesn?t involve cruise missiles...
...emerge in the coming weeks as UNSCOM gets back to work. How did the Russians get Iraq to back down? "The Russians believed the important thing was not to punish Iraq, but to get UNSCOM back in business," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "After all, UNSCOM has destroyed more Iraqi weapons than were destroyed in the entire Gulf...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon late yesterday warned that Saddam Hussein had been moving his missiles around and contravening U.N. resolutions, despite the apparent movement towards a diplomatic solution of the Iraq crisis. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says the Iraqi moves are business as usual: ?It?s been happening for a couple of weeks. He regularly moves his missiles, in violation of cease-fire but the Pentagon usually maintains it?s not enough to warrant a response,? Thompson explained. ?It?s probably making the news now because everyone?s paying more attention to Iraq...