Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TAKING SADDAM PERSONALLY
...have Americans taken Saddam Hussein's actions so personally [WORLD, Dec. 8]? Why should the U.S. pursue a country that is striving to produce destructive weapons, when the U.S. has yet to get rid of its own nuclear weapons? We are now faced with individuals like Saddam, whose priority is to build weapons and not feed Iraq's children. What can the U.N. do to halt such endeavors by power-hungry autocrats, when the five Security Council members are the world's only declared nuclear-weapons states? MAYURA K. WIJESINGHE Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...IRAQ Saddam Hussein King Faisal II (11) 39 years...
Walking into a conference room at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Baghdad for a private meeting on Dec. 14, U.N. inspection chief RICHARD BUTLER thought he was there to gain access to SADDAM HUSSEIN's palaces and Republican Guard facilities. Instead he encountered four video cameras mounted on tripods. Their purpose was just to make an accurate record of the meeting, promised Deputy Prime Minister TARIQ AZIZ. Nothing will be leaked, he said. Aziz then delivered Iraq's bottom line: inspectors would never be allowed in the palaces or most other sensitive facilities. Later that night, Butler flipped...
Biological weapons are proliferating. They are cheap and deadly [WORLD, Dec. 1]. Anyone who uses them risks killing off nearly everyone on the planet. It is a big mistake to think Saddam Hussein is an enemy solely of the U.S. He is an enemy of the human species. He is apparently willing to risk destroying our civilization and sending us into another Dark Ages. We need a U.N. that is strong enough to prevent one country from invading another. We have a right to die of old age, not germ warfare. ROB JOHNSON Urbana...