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AMMAN, JORDAN: Iraqui Defectors Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel returned to Iraq with their wives, both daughters of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday. The party moved back to Iraq in a 25-vehicle caravan after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council answered al-Majid's request for a pardon with the vague promise that he would be treated like "an ordinary citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead...
...INTERESTS in the Gulf best would be served by forestalling an Iraqui defeat. This would prevent the spread of Iran's Islamic fundamentalistism to the moderate Arab countries who supply much of the West...
...weapons of the day. The navy has concentrated the largest American armada of warships, those designed for escorting convoys across the Atlantic and attacking the Soviet navy in its bases off the cold Kola Penninsula, in a region filled with terrorists, Revolutionary Guards, and trigger-happy Iraqui pilots...
Despite publicized threats by Iran against the Iraqui team, no squad will receive extra protection, officials said...
...Koppel also sounds proud of many "Nightline" segments. he counts among his favorites one broadcast from Harvard on nuclear strategy--"the interplay was very good"--and a recent show that paired the Iranian and Iraqui ambassadors. "There's something ironically bizarre about that," Koppel says. "The last time they talked was on Nightline. That's wonderful TV, even instructive...