Word: mideast
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harkin, have filed a suit against Bush that would require him to seek Congressional authorization before starting any military action in the Gulf. In these few crucial weeks before the U.N. resolution's January 15 target date for military action, all members of Congress should assert their voices on Mideast policy and demand that Bush acknowledge Congress' war powers...
...United States faces a critical turning point in the short history of the Mideast crisis. On Thursday, as the first of 200,000 additional troops called into service by President Bush three weeks ago began arriving in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations Security Council passed by a vote of 12 to two a resolution authorizing "member states cooperating with the government of Kuwait...to use all necessary means" to enforce the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait after January 15. It was a gesture of unanimity unprecedented in the Council's 45-year history...
...council vote theoretically indicates the readiness of other major powers such as the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom to join in a military action against Iraq. But it is is generally understood as expressing the willingness of these powers to allow the United States to deploy its sizeable Mideast force directly against Iraqi positions...
...conference, organized loosely around the theme "The Global Crisis," includes more than 100 panels and workshops such as "Socialism and Democracy" and "Organizing for Mideast Peace...
...having "changed his skin a million times," King Hussein is also respected as a canny analyst who understands better than most the shifting sands of the Arab world. If he has frustrated both Arab and Western allies over the years, he has also managed to survive longer than most Mideast leaders...