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...pledging to work with Turkish Cypriot "compatriots" to find a settlement. International mediators have been trying to find a solution to the Cyprus question since intercommunal fighting broke out on the island in 1963. The 1974 division occurred when the Turkish army, in response to a Greece-backed coup, invaded and occupied roughly one-third of Cyprus along its northern shore. The result: the "green line" that separates the formerly thriving but now-underdeveloped Turkish northern part from the comparatively affluent Greek southern part. The U.N. plan calls for the Greek and Turkish regions of Cyprus to be reunited...
...regime who might be persuaded to save themselves and their country by overthrowing Saddam. The resolution would be designed to open a window just before a U.S. invasion began so that an Arab delegation would have a chance to direct the Iraqi generals to one last fire escape. A coup might seem unlikely, given Saddam's record of airtight personal security, but the hot breath of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division next door in Kuwait may have changed the climate in Iraq. "You'd be surprised how quickly Iraqi loyalties can change," says an Arab diplomat...
...long cherished the prospect of a coup by Saddam's generals. "This way, he'd get what he deserved," a senior Pentagon official says. "More important, he'd get it at the hands of his own people." The U.S. tried to encourage a putsch by sending e-mails to members of Saddam's inner circle, including military officers. The regime responded by blocking the Iraq server so that no one could receive any messages. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced his future press conferences will be beamed into Iraq by Commando Solo, a modified cargo plane now operating along Iraq...
Either option--Saddam's voluntary departure or a coup--would leave the U.S. with hard decisions and expose divisions among the allies. To satisfy the Bush Administration's ultimate aim of neutralizing the threat from Iraq, the Saudis propose that, as a condition for amnesty, Iraqi officials would have to unambiguously accept the removal of all weapons of mass destruction. Pentagon officials say the U.S. would probably still push for American troops to enter Iraq, in part to hunt down those weapons, a proposition that might inflame Arab opinion. What's more, the Saudis propose that however Saddam might...
...someone shot Saddam tomorrow, my feeling is by the close of business the Dow would be closer to 9,000 than 8,000," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. Same goes for a sudden coup or abdication. And while the "working assumption" on which economists and investment strategists are basing their forecasts these days is a bit slower-motion - a clean, quick three-week war that turns fast, Gulf-War style - Shepherdson says his point still stands. Whether it takes one session or several weeks, there's a rally in there waiting to be born...