Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraqi News Agency today reported the news everyone?s been waiting for three weeks to hear: all United Nations weapons inspectors, including the American contingent, will be allowed back into the country to continue their work. The White House is still somewhat skeptical, but it seems almost certain that Saddam has stepped down from the standoff...
...Saddam and his parliament seem satisfied that the Russians will work on their behalf to implement the crucial article 22 of U.N. resolution 687 ? which, of course, you know by heart ? and its promise to end sanctions once Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction are neutralized. Saddam?s happy because he gets to look heroic to the Iraqi people, and didn?t have to deal directly with the hated Americans. Clinton should be happy, because he didn?t blink and the return of inspectors is unconditional. Who?d have thought ? a rational solution in the Gulf that doesn?t involve...
...insiders remain skeptical over whether Baghdad will accept such a deal. "There is a lot of suspicion here that Saddam wants to maintain the option of developing weapons of mass destruction, and that Iraq will not therefore agree to allow UNSCOM to freely perform its duties," says Fischer...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon late yesterday warned that Saddam Hussein had been moving his missiles around and contravening U.N. resolutions, despite the apparent movement towards a diplomatic solution of the Iraq crisis. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says the Iraqi moves are business as usual: ?It?s been happening for a couple of weeks. He regularly moves his missiles, in violation of cease-fire but the Pentagon usually maintains it?s not enough to warrant a response,? Thompson explained. ?It?s probably making the news now because everyone?s paying more attention to Iraq...
...been the first U-2 flight since Saddam Hussein ordered U.S. weapons inspectors out of Iraq last Friday, and the fact that it passed without incident was a sign of emerging d?tente. What Madeleine Albright described as a "little carrot" for Saddam ? allowing Iraq to sell more oil in exchange for food in return for allowing the inspectors back ? was being discussed by American, British, French and Russian officials...