Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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British, French and U.S. ambassadors to the U.N. were instructed to consult their Chinese and Russian colleagues on the Security Council about preparing an ultimatum for Saddam. Bush spoke with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, while Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger contacted his Chinese counterpart. With their acquiescence, the ultimatum was delivered on Jan. 6, and a day later the allies settled on a limited strike. To keep Saddam guessing, they fueled press speculation that the attack might be massive...
Then the game began in earnest, as the mission was called off a first time, when Saddam seemed to remove the missiles, and again last Tuesday because of inclement weather. By Wednesday, the skies had largely cleared, and the allies needed only to wait for darkness. When the mission was complete, the allies had suffered no casualties. Iraq reported that 19 people, including two civilians, were killed and 15 wounded. Saddam threatened, "We will inflict great humiliation on the infidels...
...Saddam's game is hardly over. But if he has taken heart from talk of weak resolve on Clinton's part, he will be disappointed. The incoming President is likely to pursue the same course as Bush...
...would be a mistake to underestimate the resilience of nature. Studies of other spills reveal remarkable recoveries -- even from shocks like the estimated 250 million to 350 million gal. of crude that was deliberately pumped into the Persian Gulf in 1991 by Saddam Hussein's army. Though the majestic coral reefs in the gulf still show the effects of their trauma, they are slowly rebuilding. Says Sylvia Earle, a former chief scientist of the U.S.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who visited the gulf last year: "The reef was like a weedy lot, not a healthy wilderness...
ENOUGH WAS FINALLY ENOUGH FOR GEORGE BUSH. He had simmered through weeks of Saddam Hussein's devilishly creative cheating on U.N. Security Council resolutions. The Iraqis kept piling on the defiance with daily forays into Kuwaiti territory to haul away weapons and equipment, while Saddam continued to play a shell game with antiaircraft missiles in the southern no-fly zone of Iraq. Faced with such brazenness at the beginning of his last week in the White House, Bush raged against the dying of his presidency...