Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraq. Saddam Hussein never manages to stay out of the news for very long. If he complies with the latest weapons inspections deal, look for a fight over lifting U.N. sanctions on Iraq. If he doesn't, round up the posse, it's time for more old-fashioned American Big-Stick diplomacy...
Having failed to win an end to sanctions in time for his birthday, Saddam Hussein today had to console himself with lesser gifts -- the arrival in Baghdad of Hollywood action man Val Kilmer with a pile of humanitarian aid, and the news that yesterday?s Iraq discussion left the U.N. Security Council sharply divided...
...ordinary Iraqis, however, there was little comfort: Messages broadcast on Baghdad?s streets this morning intoned, ?Happy birthday to you, Saddam Hussein! May God add from our age to yours...
...Iraqi government announced last week that NASSIR AL-HINDAWI, a 70-year-old microbiologist who is the former director of Iraq's biological-weapons program, was arrested trying to fly out of Baghdad with 200 pages of documents on SADDAM HUSSEIN's germ-warfare program. Though Iraqi police claim he was taking the documents to a "rogue" nation, White House aides suspect that the arrest was staged as part of an elaborate psychological operation by Saddam to persuade the United Nations that he is now serious about dismantling his weapons of mass destruction. After the arrest, the police turned over...
...says Dowell. ?Ending sanctions will be a political decision, dependent largely on the U.S. changing its Iraq policy.? When that happens, Butler could always ask Starr for a job -- after all, getting into the White House would be child?s play for a man who forced his way into Saddam?s palaces...