Word: schwarzkopfian
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...days later, Washington and London gave Iraq what a Bush Administration source called a "Schwarzkopfian" message -- "gentle but firm." The implication was that the U.S. and Britain were prepared to use force, if necessary, to remove the gunmen from Zakhu. Baghdad relented. Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Abdul Amir al-Anbari told reporters that 50 "policemen" would remain behind. That was fine by Washington, provided that the 50 were natives of Zakhu -- not outsiders bused in -- and that they registered with the Americans. The Iraqi about-face, in turn, prompted the first small trickle of Kurdish refugees to come down from...
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