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Meanwhile, in another Middle East capital preoccupied with war, Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis talked for two hours with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was the first interview he had granted to U.S. journalists in a year. Following the interview, he personally led Gart and Brelis on an extraordinary tour of Baghdad. He took the wheel of his bulletproof Mercedes and, with an eleven-car security convoy in tow, pulled off on a whirlwind adventure. All together, Brelis and Gart spent nearly five hours with Saddam Hussein. Sums up Gart: "It was rather nice...
...notion of a Shi'ite holy crusade. As Iran's military machine gathers its strength at the Iraqi frontier, the leaders of the Arab gulf states are beginning to fear that such a hypothetical possibility is drawing closer to reality every day. -By William Drozdiak. Reported by Murray J. Gart and Dean Brelis/Baghdad
...scene around Baghdad's presidential office served as vivid testimony to a leader under siege: tanks blocked all entrances, and red-bereted paratroopers in camouflage battle dress alertly stood guard. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein last week invited Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray J. Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis there for a rare formal interview, the first given to U.S. journalists in a year. Looking very fit despite the effects of a dawn-to-dusk fast in observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Iraqi leader was a commanding presence in his field marshal's uniform...
...Henry IV, stated: "Shakespearean history is like beer; some is better than other some, but none is bad. I could sit for hours and listen entranced to such cataloguing as: 'Of prisoners, Hotspur took/Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son/To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,/Of Murray, Angus and Menteith.'" I doubt that there are many who would agree with Tynan, and I'm sure precious few would echo Agate...
...more somber than lighthearted. The dominant topics were the nuclear arms race, the decline of Western values, the nation's economic troubles and the dangerous tensions abroad. Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was awarded honorary degrees in absentia at Providence College in Rhode Island, Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and Springfield College in Massachusetts. Said Monsignor George G. Higgins at Providence College commencement ceremonies: "You [Walesa] are an electrician whose light cannot be obscured by the darkness of despotism. You are a free man whose spirit cannot be confined...