Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...give it full support. Shutting down the pipeline would be only the first step for Riyadh. An effective halt to Saddam's oil exports would eliminate 10% of the free world's supply from the market. Saudi Arabia would be expected to increase its output to help make up the shortfall and keep prices from soaring. That would be another red flag to Saddam. In short, if an embargo is to work, the U.S. must provide credible guarantees of military protection to Saudi Arabia. Already there were proposals in Washington for dispatching a wing of U.S. fighter aircraft to Saudi...
This determination closes the vicious circle. The U.S. cannot fight Iraq on the ground because it has no bases in the region. It has no bases because the gulf Arabs are unwilling to be seen collaborating with the friend of their enemy Israel. Unless all parties can make common cause to stand up to Iraq, history threatens to repeat itself...
...Saddam is not easily intimidated. He is convinced that no nation has the nerve to take him on. His conquest might have been deterred, but undoing it now will be nigh impossible. Baghdad radio warned that Iraq would "make Kuwait a graveyard for those who launch any aggression." The feckless international response to his muscle flexing during the past decade has nourished his belief that he has little to fear if he misbehaves. A loner, he has rarely if ever been told no -- probably because the few who tried to do so tended to wind up dead...
...wisdom of performing a novel -- and potentially dangerous -- therapy on children, especially since there is already an effective drug treatment. "There are a lot of other diseases without therapies," says Duke University's Dr. Michael Hershfield, an expert on ADA deficiency. "And they're in adults who can make decisions for themselves...
...Washington pondered its eventual response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the U.S. was suddenly forced to make a move in another long-festering global trouble spot. Last Saturday night George Bush ordered U.S. Marines into the civil war-torn African nation of Liberia. Their job: to evacuate any of the 370 Americans residing there who wanted to get out. On Sunday a force of 225 Leathernecks from four U.S. warships off the Liberian coast landed by helicopter in the capital of Monrovia and quickly began rounding up U.S. citizens, many of whom had gathered at the American embassy...