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...sham. U.S. embassy staff and dependents who had traveled to Baghdad from Kuwait City late in the week, apparently with the assurance that they would be permitted to continue to safety in Jordan, were detained. They had made the trip after Washington decided to evacuate everyone but the ambassador, Nathaniel Howell, and a skeleton staff. That decision followed the refusal of the U.S. -- and most other countries with diplomatic business in Kuwait -- to obey Iraq's order that all embassies be closed, in keeping with Saddam's contention that Kuwait is now part of Iraq. On Saturday Howell...
...Iraq's ambassador to Greece, Abdel Fetah al-Khazreji, said last week that his country's chemical weapons would be used only "if we are attacked by a foreign power." But Saddam dropped poison gas on Iran repeatedly during their war and used it against Iraq's own rebellious Kurdish citizens. He could fire it in rockets, missiles, artillery shells and bombs. Mustard and nerve gases, while deadly, are not miracle weapons. Both sides' troops are equipped with protective masks and clothing and both are prevented from operating effectively while wearing the cumbersome gear. Poison gas does not affect planes...
Eagleburger, a former ambassador to Yugoslavia, recently told a visiting delegation of historians that he particularly fears the "Balkanization" of Eastern Europe. With the retreat of the Soviet army, the countries of that region may once again be susceptible to the clash of national hatreds and ambitions that accompanied the breakup of empires earlier in this century...
...stayed in a two-bedroom temporary apartment on the main floor of the ambassador's residence. The door was always locked, and they put wooden boards on the windows. You couldn't open them, and no light came in or went out. From morning until 5 or 6 at night, we stayed in the apartment. After that, we could leave the apartment, and we could see the sky from other windows, but we could never go outside. In the winter, because it was dark by 5 p.m., we never saw daylight...
...ambassador saw us quite often, and there was a political officer who came almost every day. Also a nurse came every day. We had a telephone, but even when it rang we never picked it up. We could send letters outside through the diplomatic pouch. That was quite safe but very, very slow...