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...most of the refugees, however, nothing could be worse than being trapped in Iraq or Kuwait. "It's all a bloody mess there, with people running about scared as cats on a griddle," reports Mansoor Hassan, 21, a Bangladeshi who was visiting his parents in Kuwait when the invasion started. "The Iraqis treated us like dogs and called us pigs," says an Egyptian laborer who escaped from Kuwait. "They took all my savings and even this month's pay. I have a wife and six children in Cairo, and I will have no work when I return. We will starve...
...Saddam returned to Baghdad in 1963 and started organizing a militia for the Baath Party, which finally succeeded in grabbing power permanently in 1968. Under the nominal leadership of General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, the man who held the real control was his relative Saddam Hussein. Keeping things in the family, Saddam married another relative, Sajida Talfah, the daughter of the officer who had raised...
...Oufkirs are victims of vengeance at its most perverse. Fatima Oufkir's husband, General Mohammed Oufkir, was Morocco's Defense Minister when air force leaders unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate King Hassan II on Aug. 16, 1972. General Oufkir was accused of complicity and the next day was found shot dead. Four days later, Fatima, now 54, the six Oufkir children, who now range in age from 21 to 37, and Fatima's cousin Achoura Chenna, 54, were put under house arrest and have been held since then without explanation, charge or trial in various houses and farms...
From 1974 to 1977, the family was reportedly kept in almost total darkness. For the next ten years, they were held incommunicado in separate, windowless cells. In the past few years, the conditions of the family's detention have improved. In 1987 King Hassan agreed to let them immigrate to Canada but then reneged on the deal...
...playing in Ivy League gyms next year. Harvard's Ralph James was one of four juniors who were named to the All-Ivy First Team. Joining James as honorees were Princeton center Kit Mueller, who was named Ivy Player of the Year, Yale forward Dean Campbell, Penn center Hassan Duncombe and Dartmouth center Walter Palmer, the only senior on the squad...