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...Multinational Corps-Iraq, "is an invisible shield. He's picked a battlefield where he knows we won't go." That is why both sides have repeated the pattern of go-no-go set in Fallujah. "Tell me," says Graham, "what are the alternatives?" --With reporting by Christopher Allbritton, Brian Bennett, Aparisim Ghosh and staff reporters/Baghdad; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Mark Thompson/Washington
These are trying days for Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi Prime Minister, who faces two threats: the Sunni insurgency in the west and al-Sadr rebellion in the south. He sat down last week in Baghdad for an interview with TIME reporter Christopher Allbritton. Iraqi police officers stood nearby, but signs of U.S. patronage were everywhere. Even the air conditioners bore the label PROPERTY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Dressed in a natty plaid suit, Allawi was alternately avuncular and forceful...
...Reported by Christopher Allbritton and Hassan Fattah/Baghdad; Brian Bennett, Massimo Calabresi, Malcolm MacPherson and Mark Thompson/Washington; and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...owner, the Chicago-based Tribune Co., estimated that losses could more than double in succeeding years. Unwilling to battle that trend, the Tribune Co. put the paper up for sale last Dec. 18. After three fallow months, the company announced that Texas Wheeler-Dealer Joe L. Allbritton was "buyer of last resort." But when Allbritton demanded a wage rollback and a one-third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone braced for the final step in a grim scenario that had been played out in Washington (the Star) and Philadelphia (the Bulletin...
...Allbritton is no champion of editorial independence, but he may be the hard bargainer the News needs to survive. Says Jim Bellows, editor of the Star until he and Allbritton parted company over the dwindling editorial budget: "At the Star, he went right to the cliffside a number of times by threatening to close it. The unions finally came to believe he meant what he said." Allbritton has expressed his view of life by recalling that as a young man he passed the Texas bar exam with a score of 75: "One less and I would not have...