Who is the “one” referred to in this statement from George H. W Bush’s address to a joint session of Congress on the situation in the Persian Gulf?: “We cannot permit a resource so vital to be dominated by one so ruthless.”

A) Helmut Kohl
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
C) Boris Yeltsin
D) Saddam Hussein


Answer: D

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