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More than 70 anti-Saddam grouplets sit around plotting in coffee shops from London to Amman. They cover every shade of opinion and ethnic coloration, including Islamists with Shi'ite and Sunni subdivisions, Kurd separatists, Arab nationalists, communists and liberal democrats. Their only common goal is to depose Saddam, but after that come conflicting agendas. The most robust of the groups, at least in p.r. terms, is Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. The I.N.C. once united nearly two-dozen factions and earned support from Washington, but it has fallen on hard times. Internal feuds and well-publicized failures have melted...
...nothing of the sort. But once the U.N. said so, Iraq's Big Power friends (Russia, China and France) and brother Arab states, which just days before had blamed the military showdown squarely on Saddam, could hardly say anything less...
...such as that of "How Wye Failed the Palestinians" (Nov. 10). Bishara and Fahmawi reveal an astonishing lack of understanding of the basis for negotiation, despite their claim to seek a just peace. The essence of a peace agreement is compromise. Those who live in the Middle East, both Arab and Jew, unerstand that while Oslo and Wye are certainly not perfect, they are steps on A peaceful compromise. In a process of compromise, each side must make efforts to understand the other, Bishara and Fahmawi criticiz Israel's "Overstated security imperative." Perhaps they have never...
...conditions inside Baton Rouge schools were not bad enough, students and teachers must also contend with pollution alerts. Listen to assistant superintendent Christine Arab describe life amid the petrochemical plants...
...Africa by Muslim extremists and other escalating terrorist advances against the U.S., the film depicts events very similar to those that are happening around us, much as Primary Colors did about the Clinton sex scandal. An action film taught with suspense, The Siege has also raised the ire of Arab-American groups fuming at yet another portrayal of Arabs as crazed religious zealots and bombers. The Siege has many shortfalls, including two-dimensional characters. The Siege has its thrills and suspenses, and its big name cast shouldn't fail to lure the crowds, but don't expect much more than...