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...believed that Watson was the force behind recommendations that the U.S. boycott the Olympics and institute a grain embargo and restrictions on the export of high technology...
...priority for the regime. Every day Baghdad's three newspapers report that more bridges and communications facilities have been repaired. Water and electricity are almost always available in the capital. Rationing of gasoline and kerosene was lifted last month, and food is plentiful, if expensive. Since the embargo on food exports was lifted last month, 300 truckloads of supplies from the region have been arriving daily, via Jordan; a similar number of tanker trucks carry Iraqi gasoline into Jordan...
...They probably do not understand democracy. The system of checks and balances, they don't understand this. For example, when you discussed whether you should go to war in the gulf or solve the issue with an embargo. I know everything can be discussed in the U.S. But once you reach a conclusion, probably a large number of people support...
Arabs are another group that has been wronged by the media. Since the 1973 oil embargo, their ancient civilization has been reduced to a caricature world of terrorists and greedy oil sheiks. Like Blacks, Arabs have earned the right to be sensitive. Yet the PLO is hardly beyond criticism; opposing their support for Saddam does not make me a sinister Orientalist any more than criticizing the death penalty makes me a white supremacist...
...troops around. Hopes of putting an end to such humiliations surely contributed to his decision to offer the Kurds an olive branch. Saddam was also motivated by a desire to bring calm to the country so as to encourage the lifting of U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq. "The embargo is killing him. He can't begin reconstruction," says a senior Western diplomat in Ankara. "He has to have money if he's going to have any future...