Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another day in the same theater, Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), piloting a medevac helicopter, relieves a unit pinned down by a superior Iraqi force. In the course of this operation her craft is downed, and she and her crew fight off enemy attacks all night long. The next morning, though wounded, she stays behind to cover their withdrawal to a rescue chopper and is killed...
BEIRUT: Some 50 Iraqi military officers were arrested recently under suspicion of a conspiracy against Saddam Hussein in the latest attempt to overthrow the Iraqi leader since the end of the Gulf War. Iraqi dissidents said all the suspects are Sunni Muslims -- a group commonly considered to be Hussein's main base of power -- and included several trusted officers from Tikrit, Hussein's hometown. Last week, in possibly another planned attack, a former head of army intelligence claimed that several Republican Guard officers were charged with planning to assassinate Saddam and his two sons. The general, Wafiq al-Samarra...
...after Iraq accepted an oil-for-food deal with the U.N, allowing it to sell about $2 billion worth of oil in order to buy much needed food and medicine, the deal is now entangled in U.N. negotiations and a firm U.S. protest over some unusual items on the Iraqi grocery list, specifically computers and oil-drilling and telecommunications equipment. The U.S. is also troubled by Iraq's plan to control distribution of supplies to the beleaguered Kurdish population from Baghdad, since both the U.S. and the U.N. are concerned that the Kurds may not get their fair share...
...campaign, Koppel blurted: "With all due respect, let me suggest to you, I still don't think you get it." ("I was inviting the candidate to slap me down," he recalls. "And I couldn't imagine why he didn't.") And this was his elegant response to an evasive Iraqi diplomat: "Ambassador Hamdoon, I know that you have had another career before you became a diplomat, so perhaps you will take some pity on me. I'm not a diplomat. I don't understand what those phrases mean. Does that mean yes or no?" Reporters might like to post that...
...platform to defend themselves; others, like former baseball executive Al Campanis, were undone by it." If the book lacks larger consideration of Nightline's place in the TV news universe, it does offer a fine appreciation of Koppel's interviewing technique. A highlight: his elegant response to an evasive Iraqi diplomat: "Ambassador Hamdoon, I know that you have had another career before you became a diplomat, so perhaps you will take some pity on me. I'm not a diplomat. I don't understand what those phrases mean. Does that mean yes or no?" Reporters might like to post that...