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...self-deception is not total, though. Saddam knew enough to confine his recent forays to the Baathist heartland, the mainstay of his support. It will be a long time, disenchanted Iraqis in Baghdad note, before the President will try to rally followers in the southern cities so recently devastated by his army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Back to Yesterday | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

Hollowing Heartland. As the unemployed trekked to coastal, service-based cities like San Francisco and Boston, the nation's midsection began to empty. "There's been a general hollowing out of the interior of the country all the way from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast over to Pascagoula, Miss.," says Calvin Beale, a demographer with the Department of Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nation on the Move | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...best movie of the week. Even tabloid writers with a flair for melodrama are hard pressed to do justice to the true stories that have unfolded in New Hampshire, Texas and Florida -- and who knows how many other plots are marinating, still undiscovered, in the shadows of the heartland? A brief gazetteer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murders They Wrote | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...worked far into the night preparing a full-page ad scheduled to run this week in major newspapers. The ad extols the virtues of McDonald's new hamburgers and advises Wendy's and Burger King that they too had better take the lean route. From deep in America's heartland, Sokolof is ready to strike again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crusader From the Heartland: PHILIP SOKOLOF | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...second week the revolt against Saddam staggered but stayed alive. In the south, the heartland of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, which has long been dominated by the minority Sunnis, loyalist troops were able to quiet Basra and other restive cities, but only temporarily. As soon as they moved on to other rebellious spots, trouble erupted again "like fire under peat," as a Western diplomat in Riyadh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Wanted: a Strong Leader for a Broken Land (Not You, Saddam) | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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