Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If Saddam Hussein tries to use the high-tech weapons he bought from France, he may have complaints about their effectiveness. Some French arms manufacturers, apparently worried that Saddam was not the most trustworthy client, programmed secret passwords into the computer-guidance systems of the fighter and bomber aircraft they...
The painting, signed with a solitary V, is apparently a work that Van Gogh painted in Paris in 1886. By 1930 it belonged to a Swiss banker, and it was later bequeathed to his Milwaukee relatives. When Chicago's Leslie Hindman auction house puts the painting on the block in...
The French go even further than the E.C. on the question of linkage. They would flatly promise Saddam a Middle East conference in exchange for Baghdad's pledge to give up Kuwait. Paris argues that since it has long sought such a parley, it is actually giving Saddam nothing new...
The trouble is that Saddam's ideas of what would accomplish his aims do not necessarily mesh with the West's -- or with reality. He has a dangerous penchant for misjudging his enemies; witness the 1980 attack on Iran that began a bloody and futile eight-year war. Even friendly...
In Paris, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jacques Poos, whose country holds the rotating Presidency of the European Community, said, "All forms of aid will be suspended if repression and the use of force continues or get worse."