Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HAVE HEARD, the sky in Kuwait City was incredibly dark with oily black smoke and my urban surroundings were pock-marked by explosions and littered with debris, including the remains of Iraqi tanks...
...quickly learned that this Kuwaiti man had spent a number of years in the United States and had earned a masters degree at MIT before returning to Kuwait. He and his family had spent the seven-month Iraqi occupation hiding in their apartment, eating whatever they could find. None of his family members had been killed by the Iraqis, but friends of his had not been so lucky...
Only a glint of thought to its founder, Ted Turner, a dozen years ago, CNN is now the world's most widely heeded news organization. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd insists on staying only at hotels that carry the network. Iraqi ministers Tariq Aziz and Nizar Hamdoon would not so much as lower the volume of the nonstop CNN in the background while granting interviews to John Wallach, foreign affairs editor of the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau -- not even, Wallach says, for the network's Hollywood Minute. When the name of his country was inadvertently omitted from a news quiz...
SADDAM HUSSEIN'S talent for survival is surpassed only by his insouciance in the face of global condemnation. The Iraqi dictator has set up an arms- manufacturing and -acquisition operation in Tunisia, according to Africa Confidential, a respected newsletter published in Britain. State Department officials say they have proof that Saddam is using the North African republic as a clearinghouse for black-market weapons purchases to confound the United Nations team monitoring Iraq's chemical- and nuclear-arms program...
However, inspectors said the remaining parts were not enough to build a working supergun, and they believed the problem was due simply to sloppy demolition work by Iraqi workers at the cite in the western desert near Jordan...