Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...assailants, Saddam escaped with a bullet in his left leg. In the glorified words of his own hagiography -- the truth is less dramatic -- he carved out the bullet himself with a razor dipped in iodine, then disguised himself as a Bedouin tribesman, swam across the Tigris River, stole a donkey and fled across the desert to Syria. He was captured and jailed, but supposedly word of his adventures reached Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was then a charismatic exponent of pan-Arabism. Nasser got Saddam transferred to Cairo, and became another hero...
...budget talks, in which all participants could propose necessary but unpopular tax increases and spending cuts without fear of political attack. Bush wants a bipartisan budget agreement to get himself off the hook of his most famous campaign pledge: to cut the deficit without raising taxes. Yet his renewed donkey bashing makes some Democrats wonder whether they may be blamed for the bitter medicine that could emerge from any budget accord...