Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joint summit statement called for international monitoring of any humanitarian shipments of food or medicine into Iraq as permitted under the U.N. embargo...
...crisis in the gulf propelled the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to a rare sort of fame: a life-size cardboard figure beside which Washington tourists can stand and be photographed with an arm around Powell. He joins Presidents, First Ladies and Ollie North...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff COLIN POWELL had planned to take a week off at his Washington home. He had scheduled the same thing before the invasion of Panama...
Moscow's hemming and hawing may also have been a plea for attention. There was a palpable sense of injured pride in Moscow when the U.S. ignored the Soviet view and launched its unilateral police action in the gulf. "The possibilities for joint action should have been given more consideration," said Soviet Middle East expert Igor Belyayev. Finally, however, the Soviets lost patience with Saddam. On Friday Gorbachev issued an ultimatum: Withdraw from Kuwait or face "additional measures" from the U.N. Since Saddam was clearly not giving in, the way was cleared for Soviet support of an international blockade...
...with Iraqi armor in the narrow coastal strip. An American offensive would rely heavily on aerial bombing; ground troops would probably flank Iraqi forces by swinging 100 miles inland and stage night + attacks, for which they are much better trained and equipped. Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has no doubt that the U.S. would defeat Iraq -- "but at a terrible price...