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...Butcher of Bangui's" reign of torture was ended by a French-backed coup in 1979. He should have read Thomas Wolfe while living in opulent exile near Paris: returning home in 1986, he was arrested, then tried. He is under house arrest for life...
...means that those who have to work must cram their shopping into a few frantic hours in the evenings or on Saturday mornings. Planning a weekend dinner party? Best to have the menu set by Thursday night. That way you can spend the next day going from butcher to baker to candlestick maker, purchasing the ingredients. (Germans still prefer to shop the old- fashioned way, buying a few things at a time at a multitude of stores.) But don't forget the Mittagspause, the lunch break that most mom-and-pop stores dutifully observe...
...Baath Party was firmly entrenched, and Saddam embarked on a rising career that earned him the monicker "Butcher of Baghdad." He ordered up, presided over and even participated in executions of rivals, some of them once close friends. Two years ago, Saddam ordered the trial of his own son Uday, who had clubbed to death a presidential bodyguard. Eventually Saddam succumbed to appeals for clemency, and Uday was merely sent into brief exile...
...almost any atrocity. The execution three weeks ago of British- based, Iranian-born journalist Farzad Bazoft shocked the world. But the hanging surprised few Iraqis, who have become accustomed to Saddam's cruel brand of justice, which sanctions men's killing adulterous mothers, wives or daughters. Known as the "Butcher of Baghdad," Saddam lived up to his name in March 1988 when his military dropped chemical bombs on Kurds in the northern Iraqi town of Halabja, killing hundreds of people...
...This year [funding the coffee house wouldn't require] deficit spending but it would butcher the social budget," Borgen continued. "In the long run I could see it posing serious financial problems...