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Abdelrahman Qassemlou, 59, leader of the independence-minded Iranian Kurds, arrived in Vienna on July 11, 1989, to negotiate an autonomy agreement with emissaries of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. After 10 years of fighting, the government seemed eager to reach a settlement. For two days, Qassemlou, his deputy Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar, 37, and Fadhil Rasoul, 38, a Vienna-based Iraqi Kurd serving as a mediator, talked in a borrowed apartment with interior-ministry official Mohammed Jaafari Sahraroudi and Hadji Moustafavi, a.k.a. Ladjeverdi, an intelligence operative. A third Iranian, Amir Mansour Bozorgian, stood guard at the door...
Kurdish separatists took hostages and attacked Turkish businesses and government offices in Britain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden and Denmark, protesting Turkey's persecution of its Kurdish population. One Kurd was killed when protesters tried to storm the Turkish embassy in Bern, Switzerland...
...Kurds and Shi'ites did rise again, British analysts warn, it is by no means certain that they could overcome the Iraqi regulars facing them. Saddam has 400,000 fresh troops that he kept out of the gulf war standing by, as well as two Republican Guard divisions confronting potential rebels in the north and south. He might never have to call on the three or four Guard divisions he keeps around Baghdad as a kind of personal army. Nor is it certain that American air power could turn the tide -- or even that it could be fully employed...
...Material Girl," Patty Kornfield's lead sounded unnaturally strained and was occasionally drowned out by background vocals, but she gave a remarkably professional performance. Kornfield remained in character despite an unusual accident stemming from the large "sack of wheat" which dropped on her while she was playing a Kurd in the opening skit...
...Kurds' ethnic roots reach back thousands of years to the dawn of Mesopotamia. They were not actually called Kurds until the 7th century, when most of them converted to Islam. Numbering between 14 million and 28 million, most Kurds are devout Sunni Muslims who speak a western Iranian language related to Farsi. Kurdistan has no official borders, but stretches from the Zagros Mountains in Iran through parts of Iraq, Syria and eastern Turkey. Most Kurds today are farmers who live in small villages noted for their competitive clan structure and unruliness. They have at times even earned a reputation...