Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite an infusion of international aid, the agreement failed to bring broader peace or local prosperity. Hussein's refusal to join the gulf coalition against Saddam Hussein, for fear of provoking his pro-Iraq citizenry, angered lifelong Western and Arab friends, and the embargo imposed on a defeated Saddam has savaged Jordan's economy as well. The King deeply mourned the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with whom he had hoped to mold a Palestinian state, and many Jordanians grew embittered at the hard-line policies of Benjamin Netanyahu. In Hussein's lifetime, when Jordan may have...
Nothing seems to dominate modern American politics like our economic interests, and among our most important is our energy policy. It was largely concern over the flow of Middle Eastern oil which prompted the United States to stand up to Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War and has guided our policy with regard to Iraq ever since. Our efforts have kept gas prices in the US phenomenally low. But, while all may appear well for the country, our laissez-faire energy policy continues to lead to problems domestically and abroad which should be addressed...
Abdullah has yet to express his views, but friends say he supports the peace with Israel and opposes Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The son of Briton Toni Gardiner, the second of Hussein's four wives, he received an extensive education at Sandhurst and Oxford and attended Georgetown University in the U.S. He heads the army's elite Special Forces, and his popularity in the Bedouin-based force is a strong point. He may have an advantage in dealing with the country's Palestinians: his wife hails from the West Bank. But Abdullah has no political or government experience. And strict...
...warring parties do not show up at the bargaining table, or if they fail to agree, NATO swears it will bomb. But for how long, and where? Milosevic might assume the role of Saddam of Serbia, gritting through attacks on his security forces and emerging to claim a victim's victory. Or this could be an out for Milosevic. Although the insurrection is nothing but trouble for his sanction-strapped country, he can't just hand Kosovo over. But he may welcome the chance to be forcibly shorn of it and blame NATO. If the Albanians unilaterally block a deal...
With all the unsettled issues dominating the news lately, from the Middle East peace process to the Clinton impeachment to Saddam Hussein's defiance, Americans hardly need something new to worry about. Yet that's just what they got on Page One of the New York Times last week. Under the headline TWO EXPERTS DO BATTLE OVER POTTY TRAINING came the unwelcome assertion that baby-boom parents may be taking exactly the wrong approach to this crucial milestone in child rearing...