Word: obstructionism
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The Bush Administration's instinct is to cast doubt on the sincerity of Saddam's offer, and cite his well-documented history of denial, deception, obstruction and defiance as reason to see it as nothing more than a fake-out. That may very well be true. Still, having demanded that...
But Ritter's assessment of Iraqi capability appears to have changed dramatically in the years since his departure. In a recent op ed in the Boston Globe, for example, Ritter claims that most of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons would have degraded over the past decade and that "effective...
DIED. SHELDON HARRIS, 74, historian who overcame decades of Japanese and U.S. government obstruction to describe biological and chemical warfare experiments by the Japanese army during World War II; in Los Angeles. Days before his death, a Japanese court had given the first official acknowledgment of the experiments but rejected...
There are few things President Mohammad Khatami likes less than confrontation. Even when Iran's hard-line clerical rulers used their executive authority to turn Khatami's reformist presidency into a punching bag, he rolled with the blows, refusing to publicly challenge their systematic obstruction of his agenda. Until now...
SOUTH ASIA No Silver Lining to This Cloud A thick brown haze hangs in the air over South Asia, scientists working for the U.N. Environment Program reported. The brown cloud, made of smoke and carbon monoxide that cause respiratory illnesses, suppresses up to 15% of the sunlight falling on it...