Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planned White House meeting Wednesday with President Clinton, Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller told TIME that her massive raids against Kurdish rebels across the Iraqi border are nearing an end, which should assuage growing nervousness on the part of U.S. and other Western allies concerning the military operation. Ciller also said that oil-producing nations are aiding Islamic opposition within Turkey, long a key democratic and economic Western ally. In an interview with TIME editors in New York, Ciller said she had begun to withdraw some of the 35,000 Turkish troops from the anarchic region of northern Iraq...
...year stint, the Ike suffered no decline in combat readiness. With more than 400 women in its crew of 5,000, the ship was deployed off the coast of Haiti for the U.S. intervention last September; it then steamed to the Middle East in October, when Saddam Hussein marched Iraqi troops to the Kuwaiti border. In December it was posted in the Adriatic, where its jets patrolled the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Throughout the cruise, the ship performed "as well as if not better than before women were aboard," says the Ike's executive officer, Captain Doug...
...will allowIraqto sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food and medicine for Iraqis who have been suffering under sanctions imposed after Saddam Hussein's1990 invasion of Kuwait. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said Iraq would not accept the deal because it wants the U.N. to completely eliminate the sanctions. In 1991, Iraq rejected a similar offer, complaining that it infringed on Iraq's sovereignty.TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelosays Saddam is unlikely to back down from that stance unless he is given a way to "save face." The U.N. wants to deflect criticism that Iraqi residents are suffering from...
...Iraqi Foreign Minister said David Daliberti and William Barloon, the two Americans sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally crossing into Iraq, "can, and maybe will, appeal their case to a higher court." The two civilian aircraft mechanics were reported to be in good health by a Polish diplomat and a reporter who were allowed to visit them...
Last Saturday, two Americans, David Daliberti of Jacksonville, Florida, and William Barloon of New Hampton, Iowa, were each sentenced to eight years in prison by an Iraqi court for illegally entering Iraq. The U.S. condemned the sentences, arguing that the two men, both employees of U.S. defense contractors in Kuwait, strayed over the border accidentally. The Iraqi action comes just as the U.S. is preparing to support a U.N. resolution permitting Saddam to sell more oil--so long as at least 50% of the proceeds go to humanitarian relief and the rest to compensate Gulf War victims...