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Saddam is already on the verge of winning an important U.N. concession: a partial reopening of Iraq's oil pipeline through Turkey. Periodically Baghdad will be allowed to "flush" the pipeline of old oil -- which the Turks claim is corroding the pipe -- and fill it with fresh oil. Each flush will yield about 12 million bbl. of marketable oil, which would net Iraq some $50 million, and there could be several such operations every year...
...reorganizing and democratizing the society. At its heart is an $11 billion economic-development program that promises to provide employment and job training for 2.5 million people in public-works projects. It aims at putting up a million new houses, providing a million others with running water and flush toilets, and bringing electricity to 2.5 million more homes. The plan provides for free and compulsory schooling for children and adult education for millions of blacks who learned almost nothing under inferior "Bantu education." It also calls for diverting public-health funds to provide and improve clinics in the poorest areas...
...laudable discipline of Singapore, they don't realize that the ruling People's Action Party has created a climate where citizens must live in constant fear and intimidation of their government. There aren't many nations where it's a crime to chew gum or even to forget to flush a public toilet...
Meanwhile, proponents of keeping ROTC at Harvard are again bringing up the same misleading arguments that failed to convince anyone four years ago. Back then the campus was flush with indignation that the military had thrown out one of Harvard's own, Naval ROTC officer David E. Carney '89, and demanded that he return $51,000 in ROTC scholarships. Back then, the issue was clearly discrimination...
...Flush from victory, veteran Republican campaign consultant Ed Rollins inadvertently caused a scandal for newly elected New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Rollins boasted to reporters that the campaign had distributed some $500,000 to Democratic workers in black neighborhoods and to black ministers in an effort to hold down the black vote in the election. Whitman insisted the payments "never happened," and Rollins retracted his statements. At week's end federal and state prosecutors had launched criminal investigations, and the Democratic Party was suing to invalidate Whitman's victory...