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Three months after the fall of Baghdad, a grim fact of life for Bremer as well as his 600-member civilian staff and the 146,000 American soldiers is that they are still struggling to police Iraq's streets, restore electricity, fix the economy, rebuild schools, monitor local elections and nudge the country toward democracy--all while waging a counterinsurgency campaign against an increasingly brazen assortment of militants who have killed more than 30 U.S. and British soldiers in the past two months. It's not going well. In Baghdad recent attacks on infrastructure targets left the power and water...
...zone--pinstripe suit, red tie, white pocket square, combat boots--was keen to emphasize the coalition's successes but seemed all too aware of growing Iraqi impatience. "Saddam took 35 years to run the place down, and it's not going to take 35 days to fix it. People need to be patient. And I know that's hard when the temperature's 124° and the electricity goes off. But that's the message, and that's the only message there...
...Bremer fix it? During his interview with TIME, Bremer insisted that his team had achieved "quite a lot of progress" on its three main priorities: restoring law and order, reviving the economy and moving toward the establishment of a new Iraqi government. Operations chief Bearpark says, "I've seen the systems be put in place here faster than anywhere I've worked. What we have in Iraq after 12 weeks wasn't in place in six to 12 months in Bosnia and Kosovo." Bremer says people will begin to realize the promise of a brighter future in coming months...
...protests by striking performing-arts workers - strikes that torpedoed music festivals in Aix-en-Provence and La Rochelle earlier in the week. Many more events in France's annual calendar of 650 arts fests are also expected to fold, depriving hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers of their summer culture fix. The demonstrations by performance workers - from actors and choreographers to roadies - are part of a rising tide of opposition to the reforms planned by the government of conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and President Jacques Chirac. In May and June, public-sector workers launched crippling nationwide strikes...
...power grid. But someone must. Baghdad was without power for six days last week, a consequence of looting and sabotage. Locals weren't impressed by the American response. "The Iraqi people saw the Americans defeat Saddam in three weeks," said one man. "Are they telling us they can't fix the power in three months?" Abizaid conceded to the Senate committee that "protection of the infrastructure is a problem." He thought there was no need yet to add more troops to the 145,000 in Iraq. But, he added, "we won't hesitate to ask for more if we need...