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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iran was at the center of another mystery last week. What was Francois Scheer, general secretary of the French Foreign Ministry, doing in Tehran at the same time as Saadoun Hammadi, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, along with veteran would-be peacemakers from Algeria and Yemen? Cooking up some sort of compromise settlement, as the British suspected and his Iranian hosts mischievously hinted? Certainly not, huffed a spokesman in Paris; Scheer was only pursuing a variety of bilateral French-Iranian matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battlefront: Combat In the Sand | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...force has united against Iraq. Yet this force would not exist were it not for U.S. pressure. U.S. bribes and threats are all that hold this "coalition" together. The U.S. had to forgive Egyptian and Turkish debts to gain support. On the other hand, anticipating a "no" vote by Yemen on a recent U.N. Security Council resolution, the American ambassador was instructed to tell the Yemeni envoy that it would be "the costliest `no' vote you will ever make...

Author: By Alejandro Reuss, | Title: In Gulf, Leave Well Enough Alone | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...Rounding up support for that resolution was the focus of intense American diplomatic efforts last week, including talks by President Bush with other government leaders at the 34-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) gathering in Paris and travels by Secretary of State James Baker from Yemen, which holds the Security Council presidency in December, to Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf It's All in the Wording | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...nothing could be further from the raucous vivacity of Seoul than Pyongyang's unearthly quiet. Just three years ago, North Korean saboteurs bombed a Korean Air Lines plane in the hope of sabotaging the Seoul Olympics and killed 115 people; now, having seen unification come to Germany and even Yemen, Pyongyang is talking more than ever of a "confederal republic" with two regional governments overseen by a single central committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea In the Land of the Single Tune | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...P.L.O. objected bitterly to the final wording of the resolution, but for the moment the compromise had spared the alliance against Saddam from a major rift. Even Washington's Western allies on the Council were prepared to accept Yemen's original draft and were concerned by the prospect of an American veto. As the Arab states saw it, the issue was whether there was one international law for Arab governments and another for non-Arabs. "This time the world community must prove that principles (such as those used to justify collective action against the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) are indivisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East Saddam's Lucky Break | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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