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...staff is naive to believe that sanctions would have eventually caused Saddam to pull out of Kuwait. We've all heard the story: if Saddam backs down he will likely be deposed and his family slaughtered. He has the ability to usurp resources for the military and subdue civilian unrest...
...political leanings of the immigrants may not be so monolithic. Of the 185,000 Jews who left the U.S.S.R. for Israel last year, some did so out of religious fervor, some to flee from anti-Semitism, many to escape hunger and civil unrest. Nearly one-third of the estimated 3.5 million Jews remaining in the Soviet Union are expected in Israel by 1992, increasing the Israeli population 20%. For them Israel offers the only readily available alternative, now that access to the U.S. and Canada has been sharply restricted...
...appearance before the committee, Webster was also careful to caution that even an economic stranglehold on Iraq might not cause Saddam to loosen his grip on Kuwait. There is no guarantee, Webster advised, that "economic hardships will compel Saddam to change his policies, or lead to internal unrest that would threaten his regime." But in the most comprehensive public analysis to date of the impact of the sanctions, Webster went on to outline a picture of an Iraqi economy that would be badly crippled by next summer...
...There was a lot of unrest," Benitez said. "There was a recognition that this process has not worked consistently. The types of compromises of the past are no longer sufficient...
Although the Afro-Am chair said there waspotential for backlash from scholars who might beturned away by such campus unrest, so far, sheadded, she has seen none...