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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arab allies over bombing - and the resultant removal of United Nations weapons monitors - may have been correct. So with the U.N. Security Council meeting Friday or Saturday to adopt a resolution easing some sanctions against Iraq in exchange for Baghdad's accepting a new monitoring system, Defense Secretary William Cohen has been drumming up domestic support for a shift by insisting that the key to stopping Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction is to have monitors on the ground in Iraq - exactly the argument used by the European allies against last December's bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He-e-e's Back! Saddam Is a U.S. Dilemma Again | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...hoped to bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age and then forget about it," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But it's obvious now that you can't forget about Iraq, and it's hard to see what the bombing accomplished except to end the monitoring system. Now the U.S. appears to have come around to the European approach, emphasizing the need to have monitors in there." The danger now, though, is that UNSCOM (the United Nations Special Commission) gets replaced with a tamer and less confrontational monitoring body. "UNSCOM's combativeness eventually created political problems for both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He-e-e's Back! Saddam Is a U.S. Dilemma Again | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...Reverend William "Scotty" L. McLennan engaged about 130 students, churchgoers and panel members in a conversation about religion and spirituality at the Divinity School yesterday evening...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Doonesbury Inspiration Scotty McLennan Speaks at Div. School | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

McLennan, with his bushy eyebrows, beard and fading red hair, resembles Trudeau's character, who is also modeled after William Sloane Coffin. Coffin was McLennan's mentor and the Yale chaplain while he and Trudeau were undergraduate suite-mates there...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Doonesbury Inspiration Scotty McLennan Speaks at Div. School | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...Both sides have the will to resolve this problem," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "(Syrian President) Hafez Assad is concerned to negotiate Syria's recovery of the Golan because he doesn't want to leave his son and appointed successor, Bashar, facing this complex problem. For the Israelis, a deal with Syria would put Israel at peace with all of its immediate neighbors." It may be some time, though, before the two sides reward President Clinton with a triumphant photo opportunity. "The talks will be hard because both sides are tough negotiators," says Dowell. "There's unlikely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Albright Got Syria and Israel to Dance | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

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