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...advanced a number of reasons for rejecting the Soviet-mediated offer, ranging from simple distrust of Saddam to news of the scorched-earth policy in Kuwait. But the predominant reason was a feeling that delay was beginning to work against the allies. They were being pulled into the very "bazaar bargaining," as one British official phrased it, that they had sworn to avoid. Worse, they were being maneuvered into a box. Had negotiations stayed on the course they were taking, the U.S. and friends would have had to either consent to a Soviet rescue of Saddam from certain defeat...
...very day of the invasion, is the basic document calling on Iraq to get out of Kuwait. And the long string of conditions attached to the withdrawal that the U.N. had insisted be unconditional might well be an initial bid designed to be taken little more seriously than a bazaar merchant's opening price quotation...
...addition, by stirring up trouble in the Middle East, Saddam has been a disaster for the Egyptian tourist trade, an immense business and an important source of income. "He is a very bad man," says the manager of an elegant furniture store in a Cairo bazaar. "It is not a way to act, for one Arab brother to attack another, as Saddam attacked Kuwait. If everybody did this, what would our region be like?" A woman who claims to be one of only two female licensed cabdrivers in Egypt is blunt about Saddam: "He is a very dirty...
...before a steaming cup at the Baghdad Coffee House in the heart of Bahrain's Indian bazaar was of an age where he no longer cared that government informers might overhear him. "Listen to me," he demanded, urgently tapping a Westerner on the knee. "Any time an independent Arab leader looks strong," he boomed, "the West beats him down. They did it with Nasser. They have run a vilification campaign against Assad. And look what they did to Arafat. It dates from the Crusades, and it will never change." The man, a retired printer, paused. "Saddam will not win this...
Among the scariest of Saddam's options would be to exploit the tens of thousands of foreign nationals who are stranded in Iraq and Kuwait. Both countries are a hostage taker's dream bazaar. Among the expatriates in Kuwait are 3,000 Americans, 3,000 Britons and 3,000 Turks. In Iraq there are an additional 500 Americans, 2,000 Britons, 8,000 Soviets and 3,000 Turks. Last week Iraq sealed its borders and Kuwait's. Later, 11 Americans, all of them Baghdad embassy staff and their dependents, except for 10-year-old Penelope Nabokov, were allowed to depart...