Word: vip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speed through the center of Baghdad. The road has been cleared beforehand, except for an assortment of security cars disguised with foreign license plates. Each of the sedans in the procession is occupied, but on any given occasion, nobody can be sure which of them is actually carrying the VIP. The subject of all this elaborate camouflage: the tough and belligerent, extremely ambitious President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein...
...Wednesday, the five-man U.N. commission had already gathered in Geneva and was ready to leave for Tehran. All the commission needed was the go-ahead signal from U.N. headquarters in Manhattan. It never came. After waiting several hours in the VIP lounge, the U.N. envoys and their entourage glumly headed back to the city...