Word: showdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday's glamour games include a makeup, a potential mismatch and a Midwest showdown for the Big 12 title...
When the smoke--well, the fog of diplomacy--cleared, Saddam Hussein emerged whole from last week's confrontation with the U.S., ready to live and cheat again. For that he can thank Kofi Annan. Three times the U.N. Secretary-General insinuated himself into the showdown. By the time he was done, he had saved Saddam from the most serious attack on his regime since the Gulf...
...nothing of the sort. But once the U.N. said so, Iraq's Big Power friends (Russia, China and France) and brother Arab states, which just days before had blamed the military showdown squarely on Saddam, could hardly say anything less...
...correspondent. "Catapulting off a carrier and landing on it are almost as dangerous as combat." Waller's previous book, Commandos, was based on his reporting on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the resulting Gulf War, which gave him an especially informed perspective as he covered last week's showdown with Saddam Hussein...
...gaming has begun, parties are warming up and students all across campus are getting seriously psyched for an ivy League showdown...