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Only a glint of thought to its founder, Ted Turner, a dozen years ago, CNN is now the world's most widely heeded news organization. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd insists on staying only at hotels that carry the network. Iraqi ministers Tariq Aziz and Nizar Hamdoon would not so much as lower the volume of the nonstop CNN in the background while granting interviews to John Wallach, foreign affairs editor of the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau -- not even, Wallach says, for the network's Hollywood Minute. When the name of his country was inadvertently omitted from a news quiz...
...FINAL EFFORT AT A PEACEful settlement of the gulf war epitomized the transition from the old diplomacy to the new. Secretary of State Baker met for six hours with Iraqi Foreign Minister Aziz but could not persuade him to accept a manila envelope containing a private letter from Bush to Saddam Hussein. As the meeting ended, both sides readied press conferences blaming each other. Aziz let it be known he would wait for Bush to appear, thus having the last word. White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater quickly telephoned CNN correspondent Charles Bierbauer. Tell your bosses in Atlanta and your...
Moderates fret that Fahd will once again back down rather than confront the conservatives. "He will never fight them," says a Saudi intellectual. But failure to institute reforms now will only serve to encourage the extremists. Fahd's father, King Abdul Aziz, founder of the kingdom, did not hesitate to sever his alliance with the puritanical Wahhabi warriors when they defied his rule. As the struggle over Saudi Arabia's future intensifies, Fahd could do worse than recall his father's choice when challenged by his kingdom's zealots...
Last fall, when Cambridge received a visit by Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud--whose shady past included allegations of kidnapping and police bribery--Harvard shamelessly rolled out the red carpet. With Harvard's approval, dozens of University police officers moonlighted as private security guards for the prince, ignoring attacks on Harvard students by the prince's bodyguards and short-staffing the Harvard Police Department. Harvard finally banned its officers from working for the prince--after he had donated millions to the Medical School...
Sheehan also described an Arab summit shortly before the war, in which the foreign minister of Kuwait confronted Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz. According to Sheehan, Aziz responded that Kuwait should be careful because Iraq possessed documents which revealed that Kuwait and the U.S. had purposely goaded Iraq...