| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports, typescripts and handwritten notes relating to political conditions in Iraq between the end of the First Gulf War with Iran in 1988 and the invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 that led to the Second Gulf War, along with some earlier material. These include newspaper reports and discussion of postwar promises of constitutional change, a Baghdad Observer feature 'President Hussein on rewriting history' - one of several cuttings reporting on Saddam's calls for Arab solidarity against 'Zionism', an article in 'Defense and Diplomacy' (October 1989) by Christine Moss Helms on 'The Arab Cooperation Council. Redefining Strategic Opinion', the text of Iraqi government resolutions, a Who's Who in Iraq (MidEast Markets, n.d.), a three-page typescript 'What's Special about Iraqi Socialism?', an issue of the Kuwait Times (6 February 1988), text of Saddam Hussein's address to the fourth summit of the Arab Co-operation Council in Amman (February 1990) on the subject of Soviet Jews and the US presence in the Gulf, discussion of US and international sanctions against Iraq, a bundle of cuttings reporting on various coup attempts and various reports of discontent in Iraq between 1986 and 1988. |