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The confusion helps explain why Saddam seems to have grown comfortable with his situation. Though the Desert Fox air campaign last December rattled his regime, and though there have been outbreaks of violence among Shi'ites in southern Iraq and even Baghdad, his security services always ruthlessly stamp out dissent...
And the U.N.'s oil-for-food program is helping Saddam stay in power. The nearly $5 billion worth of food and medicines the U.N. has allowed the regime to buy with oil exports has in some cases been re-exported for profit or its distribution in the country has...
Chalabi and the other exile leaders want arms and real military training from Washington now. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.) and the other Kurdish faction in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (K.D.P.), say they have 80,000 lightly armed fighters, while the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution...
Among the certain winners are dealmakers like Weill and countless others who earn their living swimming in the deal flow. By tearing down barriers between banking, insurance and brokerage, Congress practically erected a billboard on Wall Street reading MORE SALAD DAYS AHEAD. Few financial companies will want to brave the...
But many believe that the speculation is unwarranted. "This bill doesn't materially change the products or activities that banks are interested in getting into," says George Bicher, bank analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown (speaking of mergers). As a practical matter, Bicher notes, Glass-Steagall lost its teeth long...