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...with the joy came angry expressions of revenge and hatred. Newly liberated Kuwaitis began a campaign to eradicate every reminder of the occupation. They shredded, burned and even machine-gunned portraits of Saddam Hussein and Iraqi flags. A band of youths used a sledgehammer to demolish a sign marking the REPUBLIC OF IRAQ MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IN THE DISTRICT OF KUWAIT. Others spat on Iraqi bank notes, the only legal tender under Saddam's rule, and tossed them into a bonfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Free at Last! Free at Last! | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

NOWHERE has this been more evident than in the "have-not" countries like Jordan, Sudan, Algeria and Yemen, who brazenly contend that their efforts for "peace" were thwarted by the Western inperialists who are now conspiring with us, their corrupt Arab brothers, to demolish the saviour of their pride, their beacon of hope, Iraq...

Author: By Bader A. El-jeaan, | Title: An Arab No Longer | 2/26/1991 | See Source »

Three thousand Palestinians had gathered at the site to protest against this group marching to lay a symbolic foundation stone for the third Jewish Temple in the place of two Muslim mosques. This group had previously applied for permission from Israeli authorities to demolish the two holy mosques in order to build the temple and were denied permission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pro-Israel Bias | 10/11/1990 | See Source »

...moment, Gorbachev's high-drama act has quieted complaints that the President himself is as guilty as anyone else of dithering amid the economic crisis. Though he says he favors the most radical plan before the parliament, a scheme that would demolish socialism and create a full-bodied market system within 500 days, Gorbachev insists on rejecting one of the proposal's fundamental provisions: the devolution of key economic powers to the 15 republics. Moreover, he suggested last week that the privatization of land, perhaps the most important aspect of the plan, be placed on a referendum for voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union All Power to the President | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Even the currently troubled Donald Trump has allegedly paid his Genovese dues, perhaps unwittingly. Last month Trump took the stand in Manhattan's federal court to deny that he knowingly hired 200 illegal Polish aliens to demolish a building in Manhattan in 1980 to make way for his glittering Trump Tower. Members of Housewreckers Local 95, who also accuse their own president in the scheme, allege that Trump was able to avoid making payments that would now total $1 million (including interest) into the union's pension funds. % "You can bet there was a wise guy somewhere in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: The Underworld Is Their Oyster | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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