Iraq
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...economy shifts from agriculture to oil production, notably in the...Iraq massed troops on the Kuwaiti border; the United States and...to sell $1 billion worth of oil every 90 days, with the money...and medicine, compensation to Kuwaitis, and other purposes. The program...against Iraqi military targets and oil refineries in Dec., 1998...