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...cars converged on a farm in Tikrit owned by one of Saddam's relatives. The Iraqi leader had arrived separately. Not long after, Saddam drove off with his sons and Mahmud, and returned in an hour without Uday, who, because of infirmities resulting from a 1996 attempt on his life, required special attention...
...From the farm, seven cars, carrying among others the maid and Saddam, proceeded to another relative's home in al-Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, and arrived at 9 p.m. At the gate of the residence, a guard failed to recognize the VIPs, who had disguised themselves in traditional Arab garb. Mahmud pulled out a revolver and shot the guard in the left shoulder. Once inside, the men spent hours discussing strategy. At one point, the maid overheard her boss ordering an aide to gather medicine for Uday and escort him to neighboring Syria. (U.S. officials said last week that Mahmud...
...federal agencies had been fighting a losing battle against the problem of outlawed drugs growing on public lands. Federal officials are especially concerned about public safety in California's parks and forests because heavily armed Mexican crime networks have planted vast marijuana plantations in remote areas. Did the opium farm represent a new product line--the first step in a domestic heroin-processing operation? Unlikely. As it turned out, the three men found at the scene were Asian. (No one has yet been arrested; one suspect, who had a brown substance on his hands and scratches on his face...
DIED. DOUG MICHELS, 59, avant-garde artist and architect who co-founded the San Francisco-based "underground architecture" studio Ant Farm; in a fall while climbing alone to a whale observation point; near Sydney, Australia. In 1974, he installed the famed "Cadillac Ranch" in Amarillo, Texas. The outdoor sculpture's 10 Cadillacs, thrust nose-down in the ground, were taken to represent the decline of U.S. industry...
...IMPRISONED. JOSE BOVE, 50, militant French farm leader; for 10 months for destroying genetically modified food crops; outside Montpellier, France. Propelled to fame as an opponent of globalization when he partially dismantled a McDonald's restaurant in 1999, Bov? was spirited to jail by helicopter following a dawn raid on his farm by 80 antiriot cops. Bov?'s conviction stems from protests denouncing the dangers of genetically modified crops, during which he demolished experimental plots of rice and corn...