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...Uday?s newspapers, Babil, today quoted President Clinton in a front-page lead as saying it was time to lift sanctions against Iraq. On page two, the newspaper admitted the report was "only an April Fools' joke. It is the beginning of spring. Many happy returns." Uday was once sentenced to death by his own father for clubbing to death one of the family?s retainers, and is alleged to have been involved in the killing of his own brother-in-law. In other words, when he makes a joke, it?s a good idea to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Killing Joker | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

...founded in 1992, the congress included 19 Iraqi and Kurdish organizations. "The CIA financed the group but did not direct its activities," says an agency official. The I.N.C.'s main tasks were to gather information, distribute propaganda and recruit dissidents. Two years ago, it published a fake issue of Babil, the daily newspaper owned by Saddam's eldest son Uday. The expertly counterfeited copy, distributed for one day in Baghdad, exposed many of Saddam's atrocities. The tactic backfired, however, because readers were more frightened than infuriated by the revelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SADDAM'S CIA COUP | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

Drawn from "The Joy of Sex" and "The Joy of Cooking," Moffat's introduction begins with columns of words of abstract terms about reading in French, sex acts and objects, and ways of preparing mushrooms. Affirmation Armpit About Babel Bathing A la Schoener Babil Big toe Bisque and clam Bords Bites Broiled Brio Blowing Broth Clivage Bondage Butter Communaute Boots Canape Corps Butterd bun Canning Commentaire Chains Cauliflower and Derive Chastity belt Creamed Dire Chinese style Croquettes Droite Clothed intercourse Dried Echange Corsets Florentine Ecoute Dancing Frozen Emotion Discipline Identification Ennui Exercise Lima beans and Eavers Feathers Marinated Exactitude Femoral...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Saints, Proust and Baseball | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

...then ran the pictures opposite blowups of the precise segments of a woman's body that most attracts each of them. There, in all its grace and graininess, is the small of the back for Actor Claude Rich; the belly, dappled with goose flesh, for Dancer Jean Babil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vogue | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Till Eulenspiegel (U.S. premiere), set to the raucous, good-humored music of Richard Strauss, with choreography by 27-year-old Jean Babilée (TIME, April 23). In the Babilée version, Till's merry pranks usually have their grim side, e.g., when a pretty girl spurns him, he turns her into a witch; when hunchbacked beggars welcome him to their group, he steals their money. At the end, he is saved from the chopping block by a girl who ought to know better but loves him anyway. Babilée's lithe gymnastics are the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ictus at the Ballet | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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