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The Persian Gulf showdown between Iraq and the United States took a more personal turn Thursday when Iraq's Saddam Hussein called President Bush a liar and said the outbreak of holy war could bring thousands of Americans home in coffins .
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Iraq said the roundup was to protect them from unspecified threats ; British Foreign Office minister William Waldegrave called the order `` grave and sinister .''
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In a long verbal attack read on Iraqi television Thursday , Saddam repeatedly called Bush ``a liar '' and said a shooting war could produce body bags courtesy of Baghdad .
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He called U.S. soldiers massing in Saudi Arabia the real occupiers in the Persian Gulf .
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In the United Nations , Libya called for the replacement of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf with Arab League forces and U.N. soldiers.
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi , in a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General, also called for an emergency Security Council meeting in Geneva to remove U.S. forces.
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Also Thursday , Saudi Arabia called for an emergency conference of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to discuss how much oil to pump .
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A passerby called police to report the body alongside the road.
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In their joint statement issued after the talks , Yeltsin and Kuchma called for the fastest possible ratification of the treaty, saying it would create a ``strong legal foundation'' for bilateral ties and help stability in Europe .
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Yeltsin and Kuchma also called for developing the stagnant relations between the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States , a loose coalition of former Soviet republics.
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The British government has formally called for Sinn Fein , the IRA's political wing, to be expelled from the multiparty peace talks on northern Ireland .
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Mr. Gore called on Israel to continue taking risks for peace.
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Chairman Theodore Cooper called the program part of the company's two-year strategy to implement budget constraints and "an effective headcount-control program ."
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Although he called current market conditions " highly competitive ," Mr. LaMothe, Kellogg's chairman and chief executive officer , forecast an earnings increase for the full year .
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That accord also called for Hewlett-Packard to buy 730,070 Octel shares in the open market within 18 months .