Word: tariq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Iraq in desperate need of positive spin, Tariq Aziz launched a media charm offensive in New York Thursday. Between a slew of talk shows, Saddam's deputy prime minister took coffee with TIME's editors...
...YORK: Saddam Hussein sent his Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to talk tough at the United Nations Monday ? and again threatened to shoot down U-2 surveillance planes...
...Noises from the other side are also less than encouraging. U.N. envoys left Iraq empty-handed Friday after Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz offered nothing but accusations: The U.S. is using the crisis as an excuse to attack; The U.S. is using U-2 flights to prepare for that attack; The U.S. is dominating U.N. weapons inspections teams...
...came under attack from those who believe, as George Orwell once wrote about Mahatma Gandhi, that all saints should be judged guilty until proved innocent. In 1994 Britain's Channel 4 broadcast a revisionist look at Teresa that was harshly titled Hell's Angel. Written by Pakistani-born leftist Tariq Ali and British columnist Christopher Hitchens, the program claimed that the Missionaries of Charity accepted donations from some unsavory individuals, including Haiti's former autocrat Jean-Claude Duvalier. In return, Mother Teresa and her sisters delivered effusive encomiums in favor of the rich and infamous eager to buy international respectability...
...Serb general Ratko Mladic had apparently named one of his goats after the then U.N. ambassador. In 1994, when reports circulated in the Iraqi press calling Albright a serpent, she decided to wear the snake pin--in lieu of a name tag--when meeting with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. Albright says the bumblebee reminds her of Muhammad Ali's motto, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," which could well be her slogan too. Look for the balloon when the Secretary is feeling up, and for the Capitol when she is trying to be at her bipartisan...