Volume 37, Number 20 · December 20, 1990

At Stake in the Gulf

By Bernard Lewis
Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf
by Judith Miller, by Laurie Mylroie

Times Books, 268 pp., $5.95 (paper)

When Saddam Hussein invaded, conquered, occupied, and annexed the neighboring state of Kuwait, he broke several rules and posed several new threats to the region and perhaps—though influential voices dispute this—to the world.



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