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...question," he told TIME. "All we want is the right to till our land in peace, the right to local government, the right to speak our language and have it taught in our schools." The rebel leader's bodyguard lounged around in the pink-and-beige interior, staring out through floor-to-ceiling windows at the snowy mountains glowing pink in the sunset. For Barzani, the rapid ouster of the regime from Kurdistan was vindication for his father Mustafa, who died in exile in 1979 after his own uprising against Baghdad failed. "We were all taken by surprise...
...Moscow for three weeks, suggesting that deputies in the Russian parliament would be intimidated if they had to wade through an ocean of yelling Yeltsinites. To make sure the ban was enforced, the President took police powers away from the city council and turned them over to the national Interior Ministry, which mustered a virtual army of trucks, water cannons and troops in riot gear. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov spoke of "looming threats," and Anatoli Karpychev, deputy editor of Pravda, the party daily, charged that radicals were planning a coup. Declared he: "Preparations for the final storming of the Kremlin...
...Prime Minister, Saadoun Hammadi, formerly deputy PM, is a Shi'ite and, within the context of the ruling Baath Party, is considered a moderate. But the changes are unlikely to convince the Iraqi masses that the regime has truly turned over a new leaf, especially since the ironhanded Interior Minister, Ali Hassan Majid, has kept his job. "The Cabinet is window dressing," says a U.S. government expert on Iraq. "It doesn't make any decisions anyway...
...20th century works will also help flesh out the Met's skeletal early- Modernist collection. The Annenberg paintings include a very fine Georges Braque studio interior from 1939, and At the Lapin Agile, Picasso's self- portrait as Harlequin at the bar of a Montmartre dive. This souvenir of lost bohemia cost Annenberg $40.7 million at auction...
...meanest man in Iraq? Those who think it is Saddam Hussein may want to change their opinion. Saddam's new Interior Minister, his paternal cousin Ali Hassan Majid, is as pitiless as they come -- "a total brute," as a British diplomat describes...