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...initially claimed that after leaving Poland, he did not return until last year. But the pro-Solidarity paper Gazeta Wyborcza cited government records that showed he visited the country seven times between 1980 and 1989 -- with the visa for each trip obtained from the Polish embassy in Tripoli, Libya. Tyminski called the reports...
...make a lot of difference. Another major effect of the embargo has been to cut Iraq's ability to pay for its imports with oil revenues. Here, too, Saddam can find ways around the restrictions. For one thing, he confiscated some $1 billion in gold in the Kuwaiti treasury. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly been offering him credit. In addition, Saddam runs a police state that can easily squelch discontent about plunging living standards. Adding up all the guesses and intangibles, Western intelligence officials estimate that Saddam can survive the embargo pretty well until some time in the middle...
...weaknesses of the War Powers Act is that it fails to specify who should be consulted or exactly when (Ronald Reagan informed Capitol Hill leaders of the impending U.S. air strike on Libya in 1986 only after the bombers were in the air and nearing their targets). Nunn would remedy that by setting up a bipartisan group that the President would be required to consult with regularly, including times when Congress is not in session. That provision could be important; the most widely repeated war scenario on the Washington rumor circuit calls for fighting to begin in mid-November -- during...
...Saddam could be justified in situations short of general war. They contend that terrorism can be viewed as a species of armed attack, legitimizing self-defense in the form of military action against terrorists and their sponsors. That was the justification for the 1986 U.S. air raid against Libya, during which planes hit several places where Muammar Gaddafi was known to have lived. Planners insisted that they were not targeting Gaddafi -- that might have been a bit too close to assassination -- but aiming at terrorist command-and-control centers. If Gaddafi had happened to be in one -- well...
...tightening around Saddam's neck last week. The U.N. Security Council prepared a resolution, scheduled to be passed this week, extending the embargo to all passenger and cargo flights in and out of Iraq. The move is unlikely to have much practical effect; only a few supplies from Libya, Yemen, North Korea and Vietnam are thought to be reaching Baghdad by air. But it is one more sign of worldwide solidarity against Saddam's aggression...