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...replaced by joy. Several thousand Kuwaitis were kidnapped by Iraqi soldiers in the last days of the occupation; last Friday Baghdad suddenly released about 1,175, transporting them back to Kuwait City in trucks bearing the seal of the Republican Guard. Most had been held at a military barrack near Basra, squeezed in so tight that they were forced to take turns sleeping. For the first three days, they were given no food or water. From then on, they subsisted on a single rock-hard roll...
...Whether he did anything in 1982 to push Thomas Barrack into a job as Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior. Barrack had helped sell the Meeses' California home after they moved to Washington...
...helped Meese out of financial difficulties also wound up with federal positions. They were John McKean, who lent Meese a total of $60,000 in two loans in June and December 1981, and became a member of the Postal Service board of governors on July 31, 1981; Thomas Barrack, who spent $70,000 of his own money to help Meese find a buyer for his California house in the summer of 1982 and became Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December 1982; Gordon Luce, chairman of Great American Federal Savings Bank in San Diego, and Edwin Gray, a former...
...Thomas Barrack, a California real estate developer, who found a buyer for Meese's California house in the summer of 1982, lent $70,000 to a prospective purchaser and then forgave the loan. Barrack was appointed Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December...
That charitable attitude, charged Metzenbaum, might have been related to Barrack's December 1982 appointment as a Deputy Under Secretary at the Interior Department. He asked, "If a person were interested in getting a good position in Washington, would it be a good move on his part to help the White House Counsellor get rid of his home?" Barrack countered: "Did [my help] have anything to do with my going to Washington? Absolutely...