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...Kamel quiet, so he decided to try to make points with the U.N. by producing a flood of information on the weapons program. The day after Hussein Kamel defected, the chairman of the U.N. special commission on Iraq, Rolf Ekeus, received a letter from Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz summoning him to Baghdad for "new and important revelations...
Ekeus met with Aziz, and then, on Aug. 20, as he was heading to a Baghdad airport, his Iraqi escorts suddenly diverted his car to a farm purportedly owned by Hussein Kamel. Ekeus was presented with 150 metal trunks and boxes crammed with documents that the Iraqis claimed the general had hidden from the government in his chicken house. American officials laughed at the notion that Hussein Kamel ever kept any records secret from Saddam. The steel cases, Ekeus said, "had not a speck of dust on them," a clear clue that they'd been quickly planted...
...floors -- including beads, fragments of jars that were used to store the organs of the deceased, and mummified body parts -- promise to tell historians an enormous amount about ancient Egypt during the reign of its most important king. "Egyptians do not call him Ramesses II," Sabry Abd El Aziz, director of antiquities for the Qurna region, told TIME correspondent Lara Marlowe last week, as she and photographer Barry Iverson became the first Western journalists to enter the tomb since the new discoveries were announced. "We call him Ramesses al-Akbar-Ramesses the Greatest...
...recent find gives scholars hope, though, that more can be discovered even in this most-explored of Egypt's archaeological sites. Notes the antiquities department's Abd El Aziz: "We still haven't found the tombs of Amenhotep I or Ramesses VIII," he says. "We have 62 tombs in the Valley of the Kings, but in the Western Valley, which runs perpendicular to it, we have discovered only two tombs...
...will allowIraqto sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food and medicine for Iraqis who have been suffering under sanctions imposed after Saddam Hussein's1990 invasion of Kuwait. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said Iraq would not accept the deal because it wants the U.N. to completely eliminate the sanctions. In 1991, Iraq rejected a similar offer, complaining that it infringed on Iraq's sovereignty.TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelosays Saddam is unlikely to back down from that stance unless he is given a way to "save face." The U.N. wants to deflect criticism that Iraqi residents are suffering from...