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...best," he says, "then we'll buy it." About Iraq's resources, he notes: "We do not drink oil, we sell it, and we know that our major markets are in the West and in Japan." But Saddam is not content to be a merchant; he wants to be a powerful statesman. In 1982 Baghdad will host the Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, and Saddam is said to be determined to assume leadership of the movement...
...indication of MURAG's effect on the banking community came in the spring. The Merchant Bank of Boston--which was hoping to buy a branch, asked MURAG to agree not to file a complaint with the banking board. In return, the bank would sign an agreement to improve its community investment policies...
...southern Italy or as near as a young designer's SoHo loft: cardigans in this fall's newest colors (baby pastels), crepe de Chine jumpsuits by Stephen Burrows, $85 knit caps from Paris. The show-and-tell sessions can last for three hours. Then, with her merchant's instinct, Geraldine (Gerry) Stutz, 56, grandly decides which products Henri Bendel will carry...
American officials believe, but lack concrete proof, that the zealots in Tehran have been financing militant Iranian activities in the U.S. The key man is suspected to be Bahram Nahidian, a Georgetown rug merchant who is believed to have access to several million dollars provided by Iran. U.S. law enforcement officials think that the Iranian militant network in this country is in daily radio and telephone contact with the hard-liners in Tehran. Officials even feel that some of the Iranians have been recruited as assassins to intimidate and eliminate leaders of the anti-Khomeini Iranian community in America...
Fang is far more positive. By the 3rd century A.D., he notes, Chinese merchant seamen had reached the Indian Ocean and could reckon their sailing speeds and distances. "So it would have been quite possible for Chinese ships to cross the Pacific in the 5th century...