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...palace outside Amman as a guest of the Jordanian monarchy. He said he left Iraq disgusted with the regime's "savagery" and "oppression", but returned because he became "bad tempered" and "homesick." "Al-Majid probably will not be welcomed back as warmly as he hopes," says TIME's Dean Fischer "But Saddam is unpredictable, and it's likely that he considers Al-Majid's return a victory...
...Reported by Dean Fischer with Christopher and Alexandra Stiglmayer/Sarajevo
...Reported by Dean Fischer/ Washington, Jaime A. FlorCruz and Mia Turner/Beijing, and Donald Shapiro/Taipei
...hours to spare before a midnight deadline, the Bosnian government and the Bosnian Serbs exchanged over 200 prisoners of war on Friday. Though it wasn't a complete success, since the Red Cross believes that there are some 900 POWs being held by the two sides, TIME's Dean Fischer reports that "the State Department may be willing to live with this, if they have reassurances that the rest will be released soon." Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke helped engineer the release, arriving in Sarajevo on Thursday to turn up the heat. Up to that point, says Fischer...
...Assad to follow Hussein and reach a peace agreement with Israel. "Hussein's visit, his first since Yitzhak Rabin's funeral, is seen by the local commentators as sending a clear message to Assad to join in the increasing warming of Israel's relationships with its Arab neighbors," Dean Fischer reports from Jerusalem. The Syrian president may want in. With the demise of its former patron the Soviet Union, and Israel's ongoing rapprochement with neighboring Arab states, Syria finds itself increasingly isolated, and normalizing relations could prove a tremendous boost for the economy. As for the Israelis, Fischer notes...