Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much less exotic: vegetables will be exempted from pre-testing only if their nutritional value hasn't been lowered, if they incorporate only new substances -- proteins or sugars, for example -- that are already eaten in other foods, and if they don't have new allergenic substances added (like peanut oil, which is deadly to some people). One of the first products likely to hit the market is a tomato in which the gene that produces a rot-inducing enzyme has been deactivated. Another is a potato in which an enzyme that promotes bruising has been removed...
...following June, Vice President Bush telephoned Draper, an old friend from Yale, to urge approval of $500 million in loan guarantees for a pipeline through Jordan to deliver Iraqi oil to the Red Sea. The bank approved the loan guarantees the next week. Because the pipeline was never built, the guarantees were never used. But the bank also soon began providing Iraq with $200 million in short-term loans. Within months Baghdad fell behind in its payments...
...since early April. Last week the village of Turalici took its turn. "They encircled the place and cut off communications," says Nijaz Rustemovic, 36, a Muslim engineer who lives in nearby Kladanj. "They went door to door and expelled the people who hadn't already fled. Then they spilled oil all around and lit the village on fire." Other cleansings have reportedly included executions of scores of people. In Croatia, Serbian irregulars continue to expel Croats from areas near the Danube where Serbs predominate, despite the presence of U.N. peacekeeping troops. There are reports that Croats and Muslims have responded...
...secretly sold off up to 50 tons of its bullion reserve, which was last reported, in 1977, to stand at 129 tons. That could explain how Saddam came up with enough hard cash to thumb his nose at a United Nations offer to let him sell $1.6 billion in oil to buy much needed food and medical products abroad...
Russia and China, who are permanent members of the Council, had been reluctant to go along with the sanctions plan. Its measures range from a complete trade embargo, including oil shipments, to cutting air links and freezing Serbian assets abroad. After quiet negotiations, the Security Council passed the resolution Saturday. Even so, no one was predicting that Serbia and its hard-nosed President Slobodan Milosevic would quickly move to end the bloodshed. (See cover stories beginning on page...