Word: lifting
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...broadcast live around the Middle East, the various heads of state loudly declared support for Palestinians fighting Israeli occupation. But Saddam's comeback was the hot topic on the sidelines. Ten years after the United Nations slapped sanctions on Iraq for invading Kuwait, the issue was not whether to lift them, but how. Saddam's envoy Izzat Ibrahim even planted a kiss on the forehead of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the Saudi Defense Minister who hosted Operation Desert Storm in 1991. "Iraqis love Saudi Arabia," said Ibrahim...
Holidays could be a dreary time aboard Mir, especially for those from the officially atheist U.S.S.R., which had eliminated many of them anyway. On New Year's Eve, crews were permitted to set up a small, nonsectarian tree, which did little to improve the Das Boot ambience. To lift their mood further, they would break out the ship's vacuum cleaner and take turns riding it around the tree--the poor man's jet pack...
...summit is going to debate a lot of the specifics, but Arab leaders are being driven to lift sanctions both by strong Arab public opinion against sanctions and by economic factors. A lot of Arab countries stand to gain if sanctions are eased, giving them greater access to trade with Iraq in lean times. But most Arab regimes also don't trust Saddam, and some, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, are adamant that if sanctions are to be lifted, Iraq must pay a price - in some form of apology to Kuwait and undertaking to never again invade. But Iraq...
...They'll go through the motions of endorsing the intifada, calling on Israel to lift its siege of Palestinian areas, probably also calling for international protection of Palestinian civilians. The only controversy around the Palestinian issue is the fact that only a tiny fraction of the $1 billion promised to the Palestinians by the last Arab League summit has been delivered - in large part because of concern over corruption in Arafat's administration. They'll probably find a way around this by releasing the money in monthly tranches, in order to allow for close scrutiny of how it's spent...
...Since no one expects the awards themselves to generate much excitement, more depends on the host than ever before, particularly since this year Steve Martin was going to lift the schmaltz-coated fist of Billy Crystal. Martin, who's lately focused on his ar-teest side, writing humor for The New Yorker and plays for the stage, seemed to promise a brainier level of humor. Which, as David Letterman and, more recently, the Grammy's Jon Stewart can attest, you can usually count on to be cruelly rewarded at any L.A. awards show...