Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee to investigate the killing. Odai has enjoyed a playboy reputation, and is rumored to have acted violently on occasion. He held prominent public posts, but his ostentatious life-style contrasted sharply with his father's calls for sacrifice during the gulf war. In the conspiratorial world of Baghdad politics, it was impossible to know all the reasons for Odai's predicament. But the President probably decided he would risk an outcry if he ignored such a blatant crime...
...encounter came midway through an extraordinary airborne conversation with Arafat that appears in this week's Interview section. Tracking down the P.L.O. leader took months of careful plotting. Gart finally caught up with Arafat at his heavily guarded compound four miles from the center of Baghdad. While he had interviewed Arafat on nine previous occasions, none had prepared Gart for the three-day, eight-hour talkathon that followed. Nor was he ready for the late-night meal at Arafat's table that featured five different preparations of lamb or the motorcade that careered through Baghdad at 80 m.p.h. Says Gart...
...1970s. "Arafat hasn't changed much," says Prager, "despite some bitter years since then. He has an amazing ability to bounce back from defeat and make himself essential to the Palestinian cause." Still eager to talk, Arafat later bumped an aide and a bodyguard from the return flight to Baghdad -- again with the Turkish air force escorting -- to make room for Prager, Gart and photographer Thomas Hartwell. For Gart, the extended interview provided "one of the more memorable experiences" in 40 years of journalism. "It was like being on a magic carpet," he says, "but I wouldn't have wanted...
...Arafat borrowed an Iraqi jet for a brief trip to Turkey, complete with a Turkish air force fighter escort. During his trip he met with assistant managing editor Karsten Prager and senior correspondent Murray J. Gart for eight hours of conversation, partly aboard his plane and also in the Baghdad headquarters that doubles as his home. While he repeated some familiar positions, he surprised his visitors with glimpses into his personal life and with his eagerness to begin negotiations with Israel...
...These states, preoccupied with the threat posed to them by Iran's fundamentalist regime, are wary of undermining Iraq at a critical stage in the cease-fire. Moreover, no Arab state is eager to antagonize Iraq, which has the strongest army in the region. The Arabs also sympathize with Baghdad's contention that a U.N. investigation would set a dangerous precedent...