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...pattern in negotiated deals, all sides today proclaimed victory. The answer to whether anything substantial has changed will emerge in the coming weeks as UNSCOM gets back to work. How did the Russians get Iraq to back down? "The Russians believed the important thing was not to punish Iraq, but to get UNSCOM back in business," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "After all, UNSCOM has destroyed more Iraqi weapons than were destroyed in the entire Gulf...
...only question now is whether Madeleine Albright's whistle-stop weekend tour of surrounding Gulf states ? Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia ? has drummed up any support for U.S. action to punish Iraq. Without it, Saddam will turn an air-strike into the greatest pro-Iraq propaganda...
...death penalty is not a matter of personal vengeance. It is a tool society has to punish gross offenders of society's rules, and to protect its innocent...
...plummeted, mercurial Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad implied that international financier George Soros and his ilk were responsible. He then trotted out a familiar, repellent accusation, blaming Jewish speculators who he contended were out to squash the economy of a Muslim country. His proposals to restrict currency trading and otherwise punish foreign investors quickly scared away new investment and called into question the future of what has been one of the world's great economic success stories...
...Chinese Communist Party. On the same day, he declared that "the foremost important political task at this moment is to thoroughly suppress the counterrevolutionary riot" and that "for those conspirators who planned, organized, and led the turmoil--and those counterrevolutionary thugs who participated in the riot--we must punish them according to the law, strike them with resolution and show them no leniency whatsoever...