RETRO-SPECTIVE THE DECADES PAST:

Life in the 1990s

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On Understatements:
U.N. team resurveys border of Iraq, Kuwait
Some fear line will mean conflict.

Using brittle archival documents and state-of-the-art mapping photography U.N. map experts have surveyed the original 1932 border drawn by British colonial officials and are now marking it on the ground. It is the first time since Kuwait and Iraq became independent that their 124-mile mostly desert border will be clearly and physically defined.

The problem with this new border survey is that Iraqis of nearly every political persuasion appear to reject it.
May 4, 1992 Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The US Presidents

41st President
George H. W. Bush
 1989 - 1993
Party: Republican
Wife: Barbara Pierce
Why we like him: Enlisted on his 18th birthday, flew 58 combat missions, was shot down, rescued, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. No excuses. Was smart enough to NOT TRY TO GO ALL THE WAY TO BAGHDAD.

42nd President
William J. Clinton
1993 - 2001
Party: Democrat
Wife: Hillary Rodham
Why we like him: Life was good, The US was respected abroad, and our President was a bit too handsome for his own good.