Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the war ended with a resounding victory for the Allied forces, Powell was at every press conference, ready to take credit for making the correct decision to intervene in the region. His earlier opposition to American involvement in the region was never mentioned...
...They are trying to calibrate their air attacks carefully enough to permit them to claim that they are still peacemakers and are not fighting Mladic's Bosnian Serb army. "I do not consider myself to be taking sides," says Admiral Leighton Smith, the NATO commander in the region. The 300 or so artillery pieces and tanks ringing Sarajevo--the weapons Mladic has been told to pull back from the 12.5-mile-wide U.N. exclusion zone around the city--have not been targeted. For now, that would be too blatant an intervention and, at the same time, might dangerously encourage...
...looking at this evening." Given the eight-hour time difference, that would mean stopping the war in the middle of the night in the Gulf region...
...difference in Saddam's future conduct. Iraq, a nation of 20 million, can always pose a threat to Kuwait, with only 1.5 million people. With or without Saddam and with or without the Republican Guard, Kuwait's security depends on arrangements with its friends in the region and the U.S. That is the strategic reality. The other reality is that in 1991 we met the Iraqi army in the field and, while fulfilling the U.N.'s objectives, dealt it a crushing defeat and left it less than half of what it had been...
Powerhouse Miami, by way of its Big East affiliation, is technically if not geographically part of the northeast region. While the Hurricanes might have an unfair advantage over their northeastern foes, the Crimson should learn a lot when the two schools meet in April...