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...house, and a servant later told investigators that Barry and the Senator conferred in the kitchen right after the police left. Police say that when they phoned an hour later, a housekeeper told them Barry had taken the Senator and Smith to the airport. Yet Kennedy did not depart until the next...
...this week, the U.N. expects all allied troops that were occupying southern Iraq to depart, leaving the job of watching over the 120-mile frontier exclusively to its 1,440-person Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission. Among UNIKOM's members, drawn from 35 countries, are 300 military observers whose duty is to patrol the nine-mile-wide demilitarized zone along the border and to report any truce violations on either side to U.N. headquarters...
Rafsanjani wants to rescue the economy by returning the nationalized industries to private hands and attracting foreign investment and technology. His government has also initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in hopes of eventually obtaining loans. Those steps, however, depart from the revolution's commitment to reject outside influence (the Islamic republic's constitution explicitly forbids foreign investment), and his adversaries in the Majlis will not go along...
Though their living conditions are not as grim as those of the Kurds, the Safwan refugees have for weeks been reliving their worst dreams, fearing for their lives. Protected by U.S. troops, the camp residents have begged the soldiers not to depart, sometimes even vowing to lie down in the path of withdrawing tanks. "Everyone here believes we will be killed when the Americans leave," says Mustafa Jafar. "The Iraqis will send the secret police...
...from closing down the CNN line 16 hours after the first cruise missile landed in Baghdad. But one of the network's intrepid reporters was the first back on the air the next day when the broadcasts -- this time censored -- were resumed. And when two CNN correspondents decided to depart Iraq (leaving a crew of three behind), CNN's new prestige was made clear. Not only did the Iraqi authorities ease their way to the Jordanian border, but Jordan's King Hussein himself called his border guards and ordered that the two men be passed through quickly and without difficulty...