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There are some indications that these scenarios are more than American paranoia. Bassam Abu Sharif, an adviser to Yasser Arafat, the head of the pro- Iraq Palestine Liberation Organization, visited Baghdad last week. Abu Sharif reports that if war comes, Saddam is threatening to strike Israel and oil-loading installations throughout Saudi Arabia and the gulf states...
When Israeli intelligence agents gave an anonymous sample of Saddam's handwriting to a leading graphologist recently, the analyst said the writer suffered from severe megalomania with symptoms of paranoia. Graphology is even less of a science than long-distance psychiatry, but there is other evidence besides the loops and whorls of script. Saddam had himself photographed not long ago in a replica of the war chariot of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king whom Saddam apparently reveres as his hero. Despite a bout of insanity, which is recounted in The Book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar made his name in history by destroying...
...FOOLS. Director Louis Malle wanted to make a bright, black comedy of a provincial French family driven to paranoia by the student uprisings of May 1968. Instead, he offers a long weekend with some spoiled overgrown children...
Hence his every action becomes grist for analysis. Saddam's obsession with security, which includes periodic purges of the party and the military, may merely be prudent, though some analysts see hints of paranoia. Yet most are convinced that Saddam is cunningly sane. "He is not a lunatic," says a high- ranking Israeli intelligence official. "He is a megalomaniac, but he is rational." Concurs Philip Robins, head of Middle East programs at the London- based Royal Institute of International Affairs: "He is not driven by ideology or whim. He coldly calculates every move...
Beguiled as one generally is by the professionalism of The Hunt for Red October, pleased as one is by its celebration of reasonable men attempting to overcome cold war paranoia when such efforts were even more uncommon, one cannot help wondering: Will the movie seem an anachronism in this moment of revolutionary change? Or do the events of recent months make the movie even more treasurable as possibly the last, and by no means the least, of its kind...