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Dates: during 1990-1999
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French officials hear that many Iraqi factories are closed or working half time; the nation's largest textile plant is said to be operating only eight hours a week. Egyptian laborers returning from Iraq report that bakers are being forced to mix barley with scarce flour to make a tasteless bread. As if to confirm such reports of hardship, Saddam Hussein's government last week decreed the death penalty for hoarders of wheat, barley, rice, flour and maize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Sanctions Working? | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...what it took to be a conservative estimate on it: $350,000 to ; $450,000. But now, not a paddle moved. After some moments of embarrassment, John Marion, chairman of Sotheby's North America, who had been working the room all evening like a paramedic trying to revive an Egyptian mummy, hammered the work down, unsold, at $210,000. At which point a couple of ironists in the room had the indelicacy to clap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Massacre of 1990 | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...controversial right-wing Israeli who advocated expelling all Arabs from Israeli territory was gunned down in Manhattan on November 5 by El Sayyid A. Nosair, an American of Egyptian ancestry. Kahane's death at the hands of an Arab lent respectablity to the man and his racist hatred...

Author: By Joshua Z. Heller, | Title: Rabbi Kahane's Last Victory | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...rabbi spent his life preaching a doctrine of intolerance, racial hatred and violent confrontation. Last week he became a victim of Jewish-Arab animosity himself when he was gunned down by an assassin in a New York City hotel. Charged with Kahane's murder was El Sayid Nosir, an Egyptian- born New York City maintenance worker who became a U.S. citizen in 1989. Nosir, who was arrested after he was wounded in a shoot-out with a Postal Service officer, is believed to have acted alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Where Hatred Begets Hatred | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...million complex on the city's South Side. Colemon was ordained by the Unity School of Christianity, based in Unity Village, Mo., a New Thought group that she quit in 1974 because of what she charged was a racist tinge. Colemon preaches reincarnation (she believes she was once an Egyptian princess) and an unapologetic quest for material prosperity ("Money is God in action"). Practicing what she preaches, the pastor lives in a 23- room mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Strains On the Heart | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

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