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About 2,000 U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War have filed a $1 billion civil suit against 20 prominent German companies, alleging that the firms helped Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein build a poison-gas arsenal. The German magazine Stern reports the action in a story to be published Thursday. The suit, Stern says, seeks $1 billion in damages for exposure to chemical weapons they believe left them with "Gulf War Syndrome," a mysterious collection of symptoms that includes chronic fatigue, headaches, rashes and painful limbs. Some of the German companies today called the suit groundless; no German firm...
...troops in Haiti will return by Dec. 1, and 7,800 of 29,000-member U.S. force in Kuwait will fly back by Dec. 22. Withdrawing the rest depends on the success of the missions to support Haitian democratic reform and contain Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf. TIME Pentagon correspondentMark Thompsonnotes the U.S. commander in Haiti, Gen. Hugh Shelton, mentioned last week that 9,000 troops there would come home -- so, commitment-wise, "he was more cutting edge than the White House...
...summit between Israel and Arab states, said the Arab League may lift the 43-year-oldeconomic boycott of Israelnext spring. "There is growing recognition" that the boycott is "really a relic of the past and ought to be consigned to the history books," Christopher said. Saudi Arabia and five Persian Gulf emirates led the way in September by deciding to stop discriminating against companies that do business with Israel...
...faxed the White House the headline from the New York Daily News: CLINTON 2, BULLIES 0! Clinton liked it so much he asked chief of staff Leon Panetta to get him a copy. So how was it that even as the forces of Operation Vigilant Warrior steamed into the Persian Gulf, Clinton's sweet victory became so sticky? The President won near universal praise for a fast and firm response to Saddam's latest challenge to Kuwait's security. But the minute the enemy seemed to be tamed, he had to contend with rambunctious allies: France and Russia, having condemned...
...face of a rapid deployment of American force in the Persian Gulf, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered a retreat of the well-equipped Republican Guard divisions that had been menacing the Kuwaiti border. The pullback was not complete, however, and the U.S. announced it would deploy a total of 36,000 ground troops to the Gulf and began to search for a permanent solution to Iraqi aggression against Kuwait...