Word: allows
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Make no doubt about it: Hussein is intent upon rising to this challenge and achieving Middle Eastern hegemony--while destroying Israel in the process. And here lies the real danger of Iraq's power, the reason the rest of the world cannot allow Hussein's expansionism to remain unchecked and his military apparatus to stay intact...
...desperate West Bank parents who have in such large numbers named their newborns "Saddam Hussein" have unwittingly branded a whole new generation of Palestinians with yet another badge of shame, for if there is one thing Israel cannot allow, it is a state of Saddam devotees existing on its doorstep...
...West cannot allow this scenario either. If Saddam becomes the next Saladin, he will throw the entire Middle East into a chaos that the rest of the world will be unable to ignore. The specter of catastrophic war involving Iraq, Israel and superpowers will be at hand...
...referring to the kind of flexibility that would allow a President to shift his stance at the most minor diplomatic incident or for his own political gain at election time. When officials at the Department of State sit down and work out American policy towards this country or that, they take notice of the fact that situations can change dramatically in very short periods of time. Policies must adapt to meet changing circumstances...
...border, an Iraqi sentry ordered the man's wife to get out of the car. Knowing what was about to happen, the man tried to persuade the sentry to allow him and his family to leave in peace. But the sentry cooly threatened that if she did not exit the car, he would kill one of her children. The husband was then accosted by some other soldiers. Panic-stricken, she got out of the car, and was brutally raped in front of her husband and children. By the magnanimity of the Iraqi government, they were then allowed...