Word: assents
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...Moscow apparently trying to save Saddam from exactly that fate? Though the U.S.S.R. never sent any troops to the Persian Gulf or made any financial contribution to the anti-Saddam alliance, its role in helping to buttress that alliance was crucial. Without Soviet assent, the U.N. Security Council could never have demanded that Iraq pull out of Kuwait, or organized the worldwide embargo against Iraq, or approved the use of force against Baghdad. Continued U.S.-Soviet cooperation is a cornerstone on which Bush hopes to build a new world order; conversely, nothing could destroy the alliance's hopes so totally...