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...most of the refugees, however, nothing could be worse than being trapped in Iraq or Kuwait. "It's all a bloody mess there, with people running about scared as cats on a griddle," reports Mansoor Hassan, 21, a Bangladeshi who was visiting his parents in Kuwait when the invasion started. "The Iraqis treated us like dogs and called us pigs," says an Egyptian laborer who escaped from Kuwait. "They took all my savings and even this month's pay. I have a wife and six children in Cairo, and I will have no work when I return. We will starve...
...with his business partner and rubs him out. After that, you're on your own. In showing that what seems to be a crime of passion is actually one of dispassion, having much more to do with big money than a little sex, and in trying to tie this mess into Gittes' sad past, writer Robert Towne crosses the line between complexity and incomprehensibility...
Beyond the President's personal political fortunes, the present mess may spawn some truly significant legacies. The post-cold war U.N., ripe for realizing its lofty aims -- the maintenance of peace and respect for international law -- has passed an important test, and could become the useful forum for conflict resolution it was intended to be. In the Arab world, new alliances will probably emerge. Whether they are pro- or anti-Western, less or more hostile toward Israel, they will surely be different. Of greatest moment -- at least to the U.S. -- is the fact that Bush may have stumbled...
...Johnson is no savior either. "If we had nudged Doe earlier and harder toward an open society and a free market, it might have made a difference," says an official, but as he surveys the dismal prospects, he sums them up in three words: "A bloody mess...
BUSINESS: Public outrage rises over the S&L mess...