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...result, Saddam's power base remains solid. Postwar clashes with the armed and dangerous Kurds and Shi'ites alarmed the minority Sunnis, who provide the bulk of Saddam's military and civilian support. "When things threaten to fall apart," says Baghdad novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, "you stick with the man who can hold it together. Saddam was the one man who could make the center hold...
...last week: "It is hard to say which is more serious, the deeds that were perpetrated in the Beit Jala school in contravention of orders and of any human decency, or the attempt to escape responsibility by a false report." No less surprised were the West Bank Arabs. Said Jabra Arag, a Beit Jala physician: "It is a great credit to Weizman that even in occupation, democracy can prevail...