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28 December 1998

• ATTACK ON IRAQ: NEGATIVE ASSESSMENTS CONTINUE USIS Foreign Media Reaction Report -- December 28, 1998 -- Most foreign media observers continued to assess negatively the efficacy of the U.S. and British air strikes on Iraq. Many judged that that Saddam Hussein had been strengthened, the UN and UNSCOM weakened, and the Arab world had been angered and humiliated.
• TRANSCRIPT: CLINTON REMARKS ON IRAQ USIA 28 December 1998 -- President Clinton says US pilots "took appropriate action" when they returned fire on an Iraqi anti-aircraft site which had launched a surface-to-air missile against them.

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