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...SHOVKAT AHMAD Leeds, England...
NAMED. SHEIK SABAH AL-AHMAD AL-SABAH, 76, liberal-minded and pragmatic Prime Minister of Kuwait; as emir of the oil-rich Persian Gulf state; in Kuwait City. His appointment came after Kuwait's parliament ousted his ailing cousin Sheik Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, who had ascended to the throne following the death of the previous emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, two weeks...
...means that they see a sense of responsibility becoming a reality," says Hamayel, a former chemistry teacher who was elected mayor a month ago. His employees have taken notice. "He's at his desk by 8 a.m. and works through after the doors are closed and people leave," says Ahmad Arqoub, a civil servant who has worked for the town since 1980. "He is really trying to make a good impression...
...Iraqi official, citing how the seats seem to be going to sectarian extremists on both sides. Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's secular Shi'ite party hasn't so far got the number it was expecting. And according to the preliminary results, the secular list of Shi'ite Ahmad Chalabi, one of Washington's favorite lobbyists for the war to overthrow Saddam, didn't get enough votes for one seat. So even as Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders are meeting to discuss forming a broadly representative government, the lack of a significant moderate voting bloc means there will probably...
...Comeback Iraqi Joe Klein's column "Look Who's Back!" [Oct. 31], on the political fall and rise of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, referred to "the greasy residue on his r?sum?." Chalabi was responsible for erroneous information about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction as well as the notion that invading U.S. troops would be greeted as saviors by the Iraqis. Those missteps do not make him an ideal candidate to be the next Prime Minister of Iraq. Chalabi's renewed friendliness with the Bush Administration is his key qualification to be the Bush-approved Prime Minister...