Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK CITY: Iraqi representatives arrived in New York to begin negotiations with the U.N. for permission to sell as much as $2 billion worth of oil over the next six months. The U.N. has enforced an oil embargo against Iraq since the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraq now appears ready to accept the longstanding U.N. offer to partially lift the embargo, allowing limited oil sales. There are strings attached, however: the money can only be used to support Gulf War victims, buy food and medicine for Iraqi citizens, or fund U.N. monitoring operations. Iraq most strenuously objects...
...Iraq would finally accede to a United Nations demand to spend oil revenue for needed food and medical supplies for its beleaguered population. But it was not clear that Iraq has made a firm decision. The international embargo on Iraq, first imposed in August of 1990, has devastated the Iraqi economy. Until now, Hussein has refused the UN offer to allow Iraq to sell a billion dollars of oil every 90 days because of the monitoring strings attached. As a result of Hamdoon's announcement, the price of crude oil fell sharply. But the issue was plunged into doubt...
...glittering cast of characters includes a disgruntled Iraqi administration and the vital members of the White House gang. Davis also offers the twist of using the real-life figures of political life that we've come to know and revile. This allows us the comic relief of seeing our fine Arkansan leader in unguarded moments: "That's bullshit!" or "He's going to start World War III!" Or fair Saddam's familial side, "slapping his son-in-law on the back." What...
...point anti-war plan calls for systematic reporting of war crimes against women and children, moves to discourage child conscription, to monitor the effects of economic sanctions on children, and to ban land mines. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iran sometimes sent armies of children through Iraqi minefields, sacrificing them in order to make a safe pathway for troops...
...Israeli planes demolished Iraqi nuclear plants. The world roared with indignation because Iraq was not actually using the weapons against Israel...