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Iraq's one million-member army has deployed an estimated 260,000 troops along with hundreds of tanks in and around Kuwait since seizing its oil-rich southern neighbor in a dispute over oil, land and money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iraq Seeks Closer Ties With Ex-Foe Iran | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...Highbridge section of the Bronx. His mother Esther scooped up the bleeding child and ran down five flights of stairs and into the street screaming, "They shot my baby! They shot my baby!" Within the hour Rayvon was dead, the innocent victim of a pointless quarrel involving a neighbor's caricature on a T shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littlest Victims | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...European Community or even the U.N. and ordinarily eschews economic sanctions, took sides by joining in. Even Cuba and Yemen, Security Council members that abstained in the vote for sanctions against Baghdad, fell into line when the Council moved to condemn Iraq's announced annexation of its tiny neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The World Closes In | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...with the U.S., an unthinkable idea for the past 45 years. At the same time, the wider role that many in Washington would like to see NATO adopt got an unrehearsed trial run, with the U.S. relying heavily on Turkey to complete the economic asphyxiation of Iraq, its southeastern neighbor. "The real significance of this crisis," said a senior Bush Administration official, "is that it is going to define the post-cold war world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The World Closes In | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...particular bogeyman. As extraordinary as the harmony of world reaction was, the circumstances that created it were equally improbable. It is not often that the world produces a dictator who so blatantly disregards the laws of civility to commit such an overt, unambiguous act of aggression against a peaceful neighbor that poses no security threat whatsoever. It is rare that a victim's fortunes are so directly tied to the health of the Western economies. And it is more unusual still that the aggressor rules an all but landlocked country dependent on imports for food and on the sufferance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The World Closes In | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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