Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Countries ought to take preemptive measures against those who abuse freedom of speech. Such measures may be unpopular at first. Here, the example of the Israeli air raid on the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor is illuminating...
...happy about that turnaround as Nemir Kirdar, 59, the Iraqi-born founder and president of Investcorp, the Arab investment boutique that engineered Gucci's turnaround. Shod in black reptile-skin Gucci loafers, Kirdar sat confidently in his company's New York City office--occupying the entire 37th floor of a Park Avenue high-rise--contemplating Gucci's renaissance. After Investcorp bought the company in the late 1980s, Gucci lost so much money some feared it would go bust. "There was a time," says Kirdar, "when--in the minds of several of our clients as well as some...
...global traffic cop, not crimebuster. Even though it acted with resolve 35 years ago in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), and though its authority lent crucial coloration to the American-led defense of South Korea in the 1950s and the ejection of Iraqi invaders from Kuwait as this decade opened, the list of disputes negotiated with only a walk-on part, if any, for the supposed supercop is impressive: a historic handshake across the Rhine between West Germany and France; the start of the Common Market and today's European Union; nuclear treaties between Washington and Moscow...
...overwhelming victory that should embarrass other politicians who cavalierly throw around the word landslide, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein won a 99.96% approval rating from Iraqi voters and was sworn in for another seven-year term. Even in the once rebellious city of Karbala, not one of the 270,867 cast a vote against Saddam. Of course, there were no other candidates on the ballot, and soldiers were on hand to make sure voters did the right thing...
...election time in the Mother of All Democracies, and Iraqis are officially scratching their heads over whether they will, in fact, cast their votes on Sunday for Most Beneficent Leader, Savior and President Saddam Hussein. Posters plastered across Baghdad suggest that it wouldn't be a bad idea to support the only candidate on the ballot in the national referendum. ("Life is meaningless without the leader," reads one specimen.) Iraqi officials, however, are outraged that the international community has dismissed the event as a sham. A Ministry of Information statement today, for example, said truculent remarks by State Department spokesman...