Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, in another Middle East capital preoccupied with war, Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis talked for two hours with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was the first interview he had granted to U.S. journalists in a year. Following the interview, he personally led Gart and Brelis on an extraordinary tour of Baghdad. He took the wheel of his bulletproof Mercedes and, with an eleven-car security convoy in tow, pulled off on a whirlwind adventure. All together, Brelis and Gart spent nearly five hours with Saddam Hussein. Sums up Gart: "It was rather nice...
Iranian armed forces are poised for an assault at three points along the Iraqi border: in the south, where the reconnaissance information indicates that Iranian troops are concentrated near the port of Basra, the site of Iraq's major oil production facilities; in the center, near Amara, where Iranian troops are solidly entrenched within 200 miles of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital; and in the north, where Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has persuaded Kurdish dissidents to foment new trouble for the regime of President Saddam Hussein. In Tehran last week, Iran's Defense Minister, Mohammed Salimi, sounded a clear...
...Saddam Hussein's leadership. On the eve of battle, he moves peripatetically among his soldiers and civilians, escorting Western visitors around Baghdad to convince them that he enjoys the full support of his people. He clearly does, despite the increasingly disastrous consequences of the war. Some 100,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in a fruitless bid to seize control of the Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature of Saddam Hussein's government. Saddam Hussein...
...could rapidly sweep through the gulf sheikdoms, as well as Saudi Arabia's oil-rich eastern province, particularly if encouraged by Khomeini militants who are so imbued with the notion of a Shi'ite holy crusade. As Iran's military machine gathers its strength at the Iraqi frontier, the leaders of the Arab gulf states are beginning to fear that such a hypothetical possibility is drawing closer to reality every day. -By William Drozdiak. Reported by Murray J. Gart and Dean Brelis/Baghdad
...scene around Baghdad's presidential office served as vivid testimony to a leader under siege: tanks blocked all entrances, and red-bereted paratroopers in camouflage battle dress alertly stood guard. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein last week invited Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray J. Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis there for a rare formal interview, the first given to U.S. journalists in a year. Looking very fit despite the effects of a dawn-to-dusk fast in observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Iraqi leader was a commanding presence in his field marshal's uniform...