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...soldiers south. But a State Department official says Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz "is not happy with this muscle flexing. He thinks it's counterproductive and it just gets the back up of the international community." A U.N. official standing near both Aziz and Hamdoon when the news of troop movements came says, "They had a look of shock on their faces. Hamdoon actually seemed to pale...
Marie E. Ambroise '95, a Haitian-American born in New York, says Clinton can still win a foreign policy victory if he handles U.S. troop with-drawal correctly...
...persuade Congress there was no need to set a specific date for U.S. forces to withdraw. "We're on course for a rapid drawdown in our force," Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Walter Slocombe told a House committee on Friday, hours after Congress approved nonbinding resolutions calling for American troops to return home "as soon as possible." The U.S. will reduce its troop level in Haiti to 6,000 within six months, he said, and hand over peacekeeping duties to the U.N. But setting a deadline would encourage Haiti's thugs to lie low until the U.S. departed...
...hopes that tough talk and troop deployment will be enough. "Saddam needs to know he's going to get himself bloodied if he does something stupid," a top Central Command officer said. "And what he's doing now is looking increasingly stupid." But the man's stubbornness has been underestimated before. During the Gulf War, Colin Powell said of the Iraqi army: "First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it." But like the Black Knight, Saddam keeps on fighting. You can cut him up but you can't shut...
Stanfield Professor of International Peace Robert O. Keohane said that while increased public approval ratings may be one effect of the military action, he doubts that popularity was Clinton's motivation, instead focusing on Saddam's sudden troop movement...