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...replacing "anti-stress" with "anti-__" 13. Touched down 14. It's phasing out MTBE as a gas additive 15. They're fighting to oust the Israelis 17. Part of B & B 18. Feedbag morsel 19. Whittle away 21. __ & Wesson has agreed to make products childproof 24. Sponge feature 26. Basra is Iraq's primary one 27. Indy 500 sponsor 28. It's ceasing monthly publication 32. Mauna __ 33. __ Teng-hui is stepping down as Nationalist party chairman 34. Aging orbiter 35. Word on some cornerstones 37. Jeanne d'__ 38. Indian princess 39. They're setting up a neutral zone...
Government officials insist the Saddam River project, a 350-mile canal linking Baghdad with the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of Basra, is intended only to add 1.5 million acres to Iraq's arable land. Arif al-Delaimi, chief engineer on the project, says the southern portion of the canal was completed in the 1980s and the marshes have been drying up ever since. Instead of driving the inhabitants out, he says, the government has been resettling them around artificial lakes. But Andrew Whitley, executive director of Middle East Watch says, "The land under the water is of little agricultural...
...allied action was prompted by evidence that 70 Iraqi combat aircraft were being used to attack Shi'ite villages and rebel camps in the swamps and islands in the Basra region, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into the gulf. That violates a U.N. resolution, passed after the Gulf War, prohibiting Saddam's "repression" of his own people. A similar protection zone has been in effect in northern Kurdish regions since April...
Unlike Baghdad, where much has been rebuilt, Basra has undergone little repair. Many bridges lie in ruins, and sewage-pumping systems wrecked during the war have not been repaired. Streets in the city's slums are flooded with filth, and barefoot children often play in the foul roads; disease is spreading...
...Basra nightclub, young Shi'ites dance or sit in dark corners until the lights suddenly come up. A military officer trailed by about eight armed soldiers strides onto the floor. As the soldiers hold their rifles at the ready, the officer rounds up several of the Shi'ite men in the club, checks their documents and arrests them. A Foreign Ministry minder tells foreign journalists that the men defected from the army. But as always when something happens that the government does not want people to see, the minder will not allow a photographer to take pictures...