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...often been repeated that the reason Iraqis haven't greeted American forces with flowers and smiles is that the U.S. failed to come to the aid of those Iraqis who--with the encouragement of the first President Bush--revolted after Desert Storm in 1991. And the U.S. stood by when Saddam Hussein crushed the rebellion...
...Desert Storm air campaign blasted Iraqi defenses in Kuwait, Bush flew to Andover, Mass., for a rally at the Raytheon plant, which manufactured the Patriot Air Defense System. In the middle of a rousing speech, he noted, almost as an aside, "There's another way for the bloodshed to stop, and this is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside...
...school for the deaf in the southern republic of Dagestan. Due to chronic underfunding, many Russian schools are poorly maintained; last year there were 700 school fires. Sand Trap ALGERIA More than 1,000 soldiers and border guards joined the search for 29 Western tourists missing in the Sahara desert. Germany sent an élite antiterrorist unit to help in the hunt for the tourists, 18 of whom are German nationals, after Interior Minister Otto Schily visited Algiers. Fears grew that the travelers, the first of whom went missing in mid-February, were kidnapped by Islamic extremists. MEANWHILE IN ITALY...
...they had and went home." Other Tikritis coming out of the city say that all the elite structures of the Saddam regime have disintegrated. If Saddam or his close associates were in the city they gave no sign. Most assume that any surviving leaders have fled west, across the desert to Syria...
...skits begin as female cast members in black bras and fishnet unitards slink through aisle and gyrate to the beats of “Shake My Booty.” Feathers from purple boas fly in a mock battle between characters from Rocky Horror and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, an Australian movie about drag queens...