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Iraqi exile groups last week were busy trying to win backing for the uprisings, in part by playing down the threat of partition. The Joint Action Committee, an umbrella group linking 17 disparate organizations, asserted that its members were united in wanting a democratic, unified Iraq -- though many of them want no such thing. The association, which includes several Shi'ite and Kurdish groups, communists, Sunni nationalists and pro-Syrian Baathists, is riven with strife...
Baker's statement concluded a joint news conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander A. Bessmertnykh...
When Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. announced that he would be leaving Duke University to head Harvard's Afro-Am Department, students there joked that he was "skipping town." At the time, Stanley E. Fish, the chair of Duke's English Department--in which Gates held a joint appointment--took the matter in stride. But it looks like "skipping town syndrome" might be contagious after...
...addition, American military experts were predicting at least some resistance from the Iraqi air force--not the quick retreat to Iran that actually occurred. Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. and Gen. David C. Jones, both former chairs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called on Bush to allow more time for sanctions to be effective, as did former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Perhaps sanctions would have failed in the long run, and we now know that the air war proved successful. But before January 16, continuing to enforce sanctions was the most logical and life-saving course of action...
...groups issued a joint condemnation of the offensive displays immediately after they were hung. Events sponsored by BSA later in the week, such as the eat-ins and the protest march from Kirkland to Cabot, also saw participation of many Jewish students, either representing Hillel or acting on their own out of disgust for racial insensitivity...