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...small irony that as President Bush and Assad met in Geneva last week, both men found themselves under attack at home for the get-together -- the American for cozying up to a dictator who has never been reluctant to use terrorism to achieve his goals, the Syrian for dealing with the U.S. Posters of Assad have been defaced. Anonymous leaflets criticizing the alliance with the West have quietly circulated and, according to diplomats, have resulted in arrests in southern Syria. Authorities have confided to foreign dignitaries that an estimated 85% of the public opposes Syria's gulf policy. Even Syrian...
Before he left Paris to spend Thanksgiving with the troops in the gulf, the President vainly pleaded with Gorbachev to support publicly a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the U.S. to use force to drive Iraq from Kuwait if the economic sanctions fail. But the Soviet President, while supporting Bush in principle in private, wanted to be sure the Arab nations were on board. "Everybody takes comfort from everybody else," explained a White House aide. Bush laid on an extra stop in Geneva at the end of his trip to talk to Syria's President Hafez Assad, in part...
Considering the alternatives, chefs are nonetheless generally happy to use at least some farm products. Even Bouley buys some farmed oysters. At Manhattan's 21 Club, chef Michael Lomonaco is extravagant in praise of cultivated scallops, raised on Cape Cod -- "beautiful, absolutely delicious." Al Falchi, who owns the Waterfront Restaurant in San Francisco, buys farmed fish because "you never know how long a wild fish has been sitting on the boat." Perhaps the last word should go to Paul Constantin of New Orleans, who has ridden the catfish wave at his nouvelle Creole restaurant, Constantin's. "Tourists come here...
...Fernando Valley apartment. As a hideaway, he bought a $200,000 house in Chatsworth with cash. Since he put many of his relatives to work in his crack business, he had to provide them with cars. He kept a fleet of 10 modest vehicles for business use, while he drove a Mercedes or Corvette...
...concluded that the next step in the campaign against Saddam must be a United Nations Security Council resolution approving the use of military force if necessary to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. And it plans to push through such a resolution this week, while American delegate Thomas Pickering is president of the Security Council and in control of its agenda (under the council's system of monthly rotation, Pickering will step down after Friday, Nov. 30). Rounding up support for that resolution was the focus of intense American diplomatic efforts last week, including talks by President Bush with other government...