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...like to depose him. Should Saddam emerge from the gulf crisis stronger, he might challenge Arafat's position. Some tensions surfaced shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait, when Saddam wanted to arm Palestinians there, but Arafat instructed them to decline. For Arafat, the task, as always, is to ride the tiger without being devoured...
Despite its efficiency in carrying out Operation Desert Shield, the Pentagon is a paper tiger when it comes to penalizing its contractors for fraud and other crimes. Just last February Northrop pleaded guilty to 34 counts of falsifying test results on key parts for cruise missiles and AV-8B Harrier jump jets. In part because of those abuses, the Pentagon banned the company from receiving new contracts. But the Defense Department disclosed last week that it has waived the ban to allow the Navy to buy 104 more Harrier gyroscopes (total price: $300,000), which are made only by Northrop...
...influx of troops has underscored the country's vulnerability. Like the boy who called the bluff on the emperor's new clothes, the Iraqi leader made it plain that Saudi Arabia was not quite the muscular Arab power it appeared to be. "Saddam showed that we are a paper tiger," notes an economist in Riyadh. "Our ability to defend ourselves is a joke." That realization augurs a revamping of the Saudi military. Less easily fixed is the ! breach of the implicit contract between the princes and their lieges. Saudi citizens may come to realize that if the monarch cannot ensure...
...tiger of Shi'ite discontent first roared dangerously in 1979, when Shi'ites in Qatif defied local authorities during the holy period of Ashura. The ritual led to demonstrations that according to the Saudis ended only after the National Guard intervened, leaving 10 Shi'ites dead. According to U.S. sources, the denouement was even bloodier. "The National Guard is the core of the Wahhabi spirit," says a government analyst. "They take a certain pride in going down to the Eastern province and beating up Shi'a." Militants in Qatif responded by shooting 12 or 13 guardsmen; the guard sealed...
Well, Princeton's eating clubs are still causing trouble. New Jersey's Supreme Court just ordered two of them, the Ivy Club and the Tiger Inn, to admit women, provoking a few harrumphs and a few more shrugs. Social posturing was taken more seriously in the '50s. Still, readers may feel that the hero's affronted psyche is a bit fragile. Novelist John O'Hara, who never went to college, used to be fascinated by this sort of folderol, and his friends joked about taking up a collection to send him to Princeton. Wolff is a skilled memoirist (The Duke...