VOL. XXXII

NO. 4

31-OCTOBER-1988

IRAQ

US Congress Fails to Pass Economic Sanctions Bill against Iraq

The US Congress, in a surprise development, failed on 22 October to approve aConference Bill that would envoke economic sanctions against Iraq for allegeduse of chemical weapons against dissident Kurds. Senator Claiborne Pell,Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the bill's chief sponsor,vowed to reintroduce the resolution at the beginning of the next session inJanuary unless he...