Word: rebuilds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private U.S. officials go even further: the sanctions must stay until Saddam goes. Better to continue a pattern of confrontation and standoff, U.S. officials argued, than allow Iraq to rebuild its economy and weapons capabilities. The U.S. hard line inspired sympathy for Iraq among some foreign diplomats, who agreed with Iraqi U.N. Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon's assertion that "the U.S. keeps moving the goalposts...
...dictator would undoubtedly be free of the sanctions crippling Baghdad today. Even those not eager to deal with Iraq would want to give the new guy a chance. Then, if he turned out like Saddam, he'd use the money he'd get when the oil flowed again to rebuild Iraq's forces, and sooner or later he'd strike out too. You might be able to modulate the behavior of someone new, and it might be worth the chance, but it'd be a big risk...
Knowles said last weekend that the decision to launch a fund to rebuild the tower reflects the University's commitment to its heritage...
...capos' wake, the police and armyhave become utterly demoralized and ceased to be a power in Haiti, TIME writerMarguerite Michaels reports from Port-au-Prince. "It's not a police force in anysense that we understand it," she says. Raymond Kelly, the former NYPD chiefnow helping to rebuild the Haitian force, said he was having trouble getting thecops onto the streets at all. Without Haitian security, U.S. forces are fearingthey may have to fire on looting pro-democracy Haitians if the returningPresident Jean Bertrand Aristide can't control his people. "So much depends onAristide, and there is so little trust...
...Disarmament is one step towards eliminating some of the structural defects in the Haitian government as it now exists," said Peter Reich, professor at the Whittier College School of Law. "The Haitian government is totally out of control. Devoting less money to the military will help Haiti rebuild the rest of its economy...