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Mounting concern for the plight of hungry Iraqi citizens is also forcing Washington and its European allies to temper their hard-line stance on continued economic sanctions. The drumbeat to ease the embargo began when Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, who heads the U.N.'s relief efforts in the gulf, warned that food and medicine shortages presented "a humanitarian crisis that could degenerate into a catastrophe." His recommendation: a U.N.-regulated sale of Iraqi oil to raise $2.6 billion, enough to cover humanitarian needs for the next four months. Last week the Bush Administration reluctantly supported a one-time-only...
...Khan and Filsinger said that the planning committee's goal is to establish a "centrally located, multi-service senior center," where all activities for the elderly would be coordinated...
There is nothing new in the phenomenon of a single audacious individual grabbing humanity by the throat. But Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan and Napoleon all started near the center of the world they set out to conquer. Not too long ago, Saddam would have been a peripheral nuisance -- a pirate or a warlord meriting the dispatch of an expeditionary force from some imperial metropole...
...France flew 800 diplomats and other foreign residents to safety in separate rescue missions last week. Soldiers looted the American embassy as soon as the last helicopter took off. Reported Italian Ambassador Mario Sica, who left Saturday: "The city is being sacked as in the days of Genghis Khan...
Last week the new government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, which had promised to institute a legal system based on Shariat law, decided to seek a new interpretation of the law from Islamic scholars. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a federal minister, announced that the strikers' "misgivings" would be remedied by a "simpler and befitting interpretation" of the law. Nawaz Sharif is learning that imposing Islamic codes is far tougher than campaigning on the issue...