Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poison gas, child soldiers and growing fears of a new offensive...
...while he still has a job and a country, began to look almost like a humanitarian. Last week, however, there was evidence that tended to put matters back into a grimmer perspective. From Washington and elsewhere came convincing reports that Saddam Hussein's forces have been using poison gas against the Iranians...
Until Washington weighed in, the Iraqis had been stoutly maintaining that they had not used poison gas and that the charges had been concocted by the Iranians to excuse their battlefield defeats. The Iraqis continued to deny the charge, though they did not rule out the possible use of chemical warfare in the future. Said Major General Sabah al Fakhri, commander of Iraqi forces east of the Tigris River: "If a superpower threatened the U.S., what would it do? We too have our dignity and honor. We are not going to meet the invader with flowers and perfume...
...level of engagement has intensified, the unwritten agreement that for two years restricted reciprocal attacks against oil installations has effectively collapsed. "It is a measure of how bad things have become," he says, "that after all these casualties, it is hard to get excited about the use of poison gas. It is just another of the steps that both sides are willing to take." - By WilliamE. Smith. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Baghdad and Raji Samghabadi/New York...
...East German government quickly declared that Stoph "had nothing to do with the actions" of the Berg family. Western publicity concerning the defection, said the official East German press agency, was an attempt to poison relations between the two Germanys. Officials in Bonn were equally disturbed by the attention the West German press gave the Berg incident. In an effort to avoid further embarrassing the East Germans, the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl briefly suspended any pronouncements on the matter. After spending six days in the Prague embassy, the Berg family returned late last week to East Germany...