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...Saddam would have no control and get no credit for the operation. Secondly, foreign monitors would accompany the distribution, a condition which galls Saddam. Finally, Saddam would lose one of the propaganda points which wins him support and sympathy in the Arab world. If innocent suffering Muslim civilians are fed and medicated, then other Arab countries will remember why they don't like Saddam in the first place." If that is the case, perhaps the next parcels the United States sends Saddam's way should not go boom. -- Terence Nelan
...Saddam would have no control and get no credit for the operation. Secondly, foreign monitors would accompany the distribution, a condition which galls Saddam. Finally, Saddam would lose one of the propaganda points which wins him support and sympathy in the Arab world. If innocent suffering Muslim civilians are fed and medicated, then other Arab countries will remember why they don't like Saddam in the first place." If that is the case, perhaps the next parcels the United States sends Saddam's way should not go boom. -- Terence Nelan
...prospects even while conceding that their own prospects are O.K. Republicans are reduced to grumbling that modest, steady growth is not good enough and that Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve Board, rather than Clinton, deserve the credit in any event. (There's an inherent contradiction here: If the Fed sets the rate of growth, how can Clinton be blamed that it's not faster?) Clinton, meanwhile, has the happier but still tricky task of taking credit for our wonderful economic condition without seeming complacent about our terrible economic grievances...
...clip sets off the alarms, while cameras and bags are xrayed and hand-checked. Since some local scalpers have color-xeroxed fake passes, the guards also must feel the passes to check the paper quality. Unlike the neatly organized system at the GOP convention in San Diego, though, which fed the throngs smoothly to the metal detectors, the Chicago security team has no idea how to organize the lines leading to the gates. On Monday night, as thousands of people pressed forward in an agitated mob, impatient delegates and Democratic staff began jumping the line and forcing their way into...
...clip sets off the alarms, while cameras and bags are xrayed and hand-checked. Since some local scalpers have color-xeroxed fake passes, the guards also must feel the passes to check the paper quality. Unlike the neatly organized system at the GOP convention in San Diego, though, which fed the throngs smoothly to the metal detectors, the Chicago security team has no idea how to organize the lines leading to the gates. On Monday night, as thousands of people pressed forward in an agitated mob, impatient delegates and Democratic staff began jumping the line and forcing their way into...