However, this did not happen and in 1991, the UN expressed grave concern over the humanitarian situation in Iraq at that time and proposed some measures that would allow a small amount of oil to be sold from Iraq. Only enough oil was to be sold to meet the population's basic essential needs, any other sale for profit was strictly prohibited. ... In 1996, the UN established the Oil-for-Food program, which allowed Iraq to sell oil for the purchase of goods essential for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people. ... On top of that, almost five years of the oil-for-food program failed to...

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However, this did not happen and in 1991, the UN expressed grave concern over the humanitarian situation in Iraq at that time and proposed some measures that would allow a small amount of oil to be sold from Iraq. Only enough oil was to be sold to meet the population's basic essential needs, any other sale for profit was strictly prohibited. ... In 1996, the UN established the Oil-for-Food program, which allowed Iraq to sell oil for the purchase of goods essential for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people. ... On top of that, almost five years of the oil-for-food program failed to...

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Reagan began a major campaign to overthrow the Marxists in Nicaragua by supplying training, weapons, money, and supplies to the Contras. ... As a result of the Iranian hostage crisis, congress had marked Iran as a terrorist nation and had outlawed the sale of weapons to the Iranian government. In 1986 newspapers reported that the United States had covertly sold weapons to Iran in order to win the nations support in freeing the United States hostages who were being help by terrorists that were friendly to the Iranian government. ... Newspapers had also revealed that the United States had turn...

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• Grade Level: High School