Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like France and Turkey that had helped fight the Gulf War were eager to welcome Iraq back into the fold. For months Baghdad had been negotiating deals with former trading partners, all of them hoping to reopen a hugely lucrative market. And Iraq was making progress on other fronts: Rolf Ekeus, the U.N. official charged with setting up the system to monitor weapons building inside Iraq, was about to report to the Security Council that Iraq was in provisional compliance with that significant U.N. requirement...
Hans Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported last October that "in all essential aspects, the nuclear-weapons program is mapped and has been destroyed through the war or neutralized thereafter." Rolf Ekeus, chairman of the U.N. monitoring team, believes Baghdad's chemical programs have been dismantled. Ekeus is also confident that his men have accounted for all 890 Scud-B missiles Iraq bought from the Soviet Union during the 1970s and '80s. But he still has doubts that Iraq has destroyed its biological-weapons program...
...full! Fourth grade teachers invent the best traditions: Give a valentine to everybody if you're going to give one to anyone at all. I'd stayed up until 11 the night before finishing my hand-made valentines, thinking of just the right thing to put on Rolf Lundmark's pink, red and white heart. Mushy stuff probably wouldn't work. But I had to think of something special...
...Rolf was the most popular boy in all of fourth grade, and that included every fourth grade class at Belvedere Elementary school. In third grade, a bunch of friends had gotten together and paid Rolf (I think it was about $5) to make a list of his favorite girls in the class. That note was passed around the whole class, and my name was at the top of the list! So he must really like me, right...
...tossed aside the cards until I finally found Rolf's valentine. A bear. Sigh...