They were a real danger; in the Gulf War twenty-eight of our soldiers had been killed by an Iraqi Scud missile. By the end of the month, the UN Security Council had approved an invasion to dislodge the dictatorship, an action that seemed more and more inevitable. As governor, I’d lived in a mansion with a fine staff, and had been driven everywhere by the state police security detail. ” As with so many such statements, this would prove to be easier said than done.
troops on a humanitarian mission to avert mass starvation; and Russia, where the economy was in shambles, President Yeltsin faced growing o I needed that trip home. Yeltsin knew I was hurting because he also had recently lost his mother, whom he adored. In my first two years, when the Democrats were in the majority, I had gotten more money for training displaced workers and signed the NAFTA side agreements on the environment and labor standards.
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