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...farfetched. In a region rife with dissolute and spendthrift rulers, he is admired for his austere and disciplined habits. "He has no palaces, no Swiss bank accounts," says Major General Yusuf Kawash, a retired member of the Jordanian army. Saddam has positioned himself as an avenging Robin Hood, intent upon stealing the wealth of the affluent but uncaring gulf states and redistributing it to the impoverished Arab masses. Jordan's Hussein reinforced that reasoning early last week, when he said that the crisis was "redrawing boundaries between the haves and the have-nots...
...naked aggression." Resource-rich but sparse in people, Kuwait was a timely acquisition -- an act of piracy, pure and simple -- for Iraq, whose war with Iran left the country with $70 billion in debts and tremendous reconstruction costs. While Saddam does not face an immediate cash shortage, he is intent on proceeding with some $40 billion worth of self-memorializing development projects that he has been unable to finance. Among them: the Baghdad metro, 2,000 miles of railway and two gigantic hydroelectric dams. Now Saddam can not only pocket the profits of Kuwait's oil wells but also manipulate...
...Drugs continues, less harmful drugs will continue to be pushed out of the market by more harmful drugs, like synthetically manufactured methamphetamine, commonly called "ice." We also can expect more murders by those under the influence of unpredicable drugs and more killings by pushers intent on increasing their market...
...Army's intent is not at issue. It is trying to carry out a promise made by former President Ronald Reagan to remove the shells from German soil by 1992. President George Bush has set an even earlier deadline of this Sept...
Ligachev was the first to make his move. The blistering attacks against Kremlin policies in the opening days of the Congress left no doubt that conservatives were intent on forcing the party to the right -- and the party leader with it. Wielding his muscle, Gorbachev handily kept the job of General Secretary. The right wing decided instead to wage war for the key post of deputy, who would supervise day-to-day party business. Whoever controlled that job would in effect control the party...