Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question that he has become much more than an irritant. He has withstood all the sanctions the U.N. could pile on him, and thumbs his nose at the idea of being bombed again. His callousness seems to know no bounds. When UNICEF announced last week that a million Iraqi children have suffered from malnutrition under seven years of the embargo, Saddam acted to make their plight worse. He said he was uninterested in renewing an arrangement that allows Iraq to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months to buy food and medicine. Instead, he demands that all sanctions...
...Iraqis seem determined to keep talking about buildings and compounds associated with Saddam. That makes it easier for them to stake their claims to sovereignty and security. With great flourishes last week, Baghdad said it was inviting diplomatic representatives from the 20 countries taking part in the Special Commission and five from each of the 15 members of the Security Council. They could visit the palaces and stay "a week, a month, to see the facts," said the Iraqi News Agency. Of course, sleight of hand followed. Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf quickly barred any of the U.N. inspectors...
...they are not, says Rolf Ekeus, who headed the commission until last summer and is now Sweden's ambassador to the U.S. On June 22, 1996, Ekeus and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz signed an agreement guaranteeing that U.N. inspectors would have "immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access" to all sites they wanted to inspect. The accord does contain a paragraph that calls for respecting Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity, but Ekeus says this was only a repetition of formal language in the 1991 truce agreement...
...embassy in Teheran in 1979. U.S. Soccer Federation President Alan Rothenberg was more philosophical ? "Maybe we can have soccer diplomacy like we had ping-pong diplomacy with China," he said ? if not optimistic. "The only thing that can make it better is if FIFA designates an Iraqi referee," he added...
...million: Barrels of Iraqi oil imported...