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...ever get a job. Police say refunds are rare. "I'd like to see these guys rot in hell," says Bill Dwyer, a 43-year-old New Jersey electrician who scrounged together $295 after a Florida job agency told him he would have a choice of assignments in Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Acapulco, Mexico. Out of work for three years, he dreamed of sending his kids to college. "It was all wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, until they got my money. Then, nothing," he says...
...people to sign up, phone salesmen literally promise callers the world. This year it's the sunny Caribbean. Eastern Europe, Kuwait and Australia were last year's come-on. One man was told his credit-card debt would be paid off; another was assured his employer would fly his dog overseas. A Chicago woman believed an agency that told her Iran was hiring female construction workers. Three construction workers in Decatur, Illinois, thought they had got a real deal with a "buddy package" to work on hotels and casinos in Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles. "What suckers we were," says...
THEY ARE, BY THEIR OWN CREDIBLE ACCOUNTS, TWO ordinary Britons tripped up by circumstances. Paul Ride, 33, a catering manager employed in Kuwait, says he was forced into Iraq by soldiers during a business trip near the border. Michael Wainwright, 41, claims he was admitted to Kurdistan by Iraqi guards while visiting Turkey. Both are now serving long terms for illegal entry, and Iraq has tied their fate to a payoff demanded of the British government growing out of the Gulf...
...helped train forces loyal to Hissene Habre, the West's ousted candidate for leadership in Chad. Zaire chaired the U.N. Security Council in January 1991 when the crucial votes were taken to approve military action against Iraq in the Gulf War. A senior U.S. official says Washington suggested to Kuwait that Mobutu's vote in favor of allied military strikes be generously rewarded. That initiative could be viewed as an attempt to circumvent U.S. law, which has for several years banned all but humanitarian aid to Zaire...
...school's heavy politics, which have pitted faculty members against faculty members, faculty member against students and, perhaps most viciously of all, students against student. Relations have broken down so completely that Dean Clark recently appointed Professor Emeritus Roger Fisher, the famed negotiator who has attempted to reconcile Kuwait and Iraq, to act as a kind of marriage counselor for the law school 'community...