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Another worry for Saddam -- surely unexpected -- was the Arab League's remarkable decision on Friday to endorse the dispatch of Arab troops to join the Saudis' defense. A day later, contingents of Egyptian and Moroccan troops were in place, prepared to fight shoulder to shoulder with the Americans against their Arab brothers, and Syrians were on the way. The Arab presence had political as well as military significance. No longer could Saddam easily cast himself as the Arab nationalist taking on the Western imperialists and their Saudi lackeys. The Arab League's move was a difficult but brave decision that...
...terrace. Apparently Matisse was worried that Morosov would object to the use of a prostitute, since the central panels of Russian triptychs often contained figures of the Virgin Mary. But one can hardly doubt that the artist enjoyed the switch, and submissive Zorah does become a kind of Moroccan madonna...
...actual event has so far proved to be far less damaging. Thanks to mild weather that kept the spill at bay, by the end of last week the 217-mile-long slick had stagnated about 29 miles off the Moroccan coast. Though the spill from the Iranian supertanker Khark 5 is the 16th largest in history, its eventual impact on the environment and Morocco's economy may be relatively mild. But until the oil is completely dispersed, changes in the weather may yet push the crude onto the shore. That possibility was keeping Moroccans on edge...
...Moroccan government, ill equipped to handle the spill on its own, inexplicably hesitated before publicly revealing the accident or calling for international assistance. "It's just unbelievable," oceanographer Jacques Cousteau told French radio. "A major disaster, and nobody moves...
...have been a significantly good decade," says Malcolm Forbes, 70, the ebullient magazine publisher whose $2 million Moroccan birthday party for himself epitomized the decade's love of self-indulgence. "Critics point to the glitterful excesses and the greed, but, God, they miss the point," says Forbes. "This was the decade that saw the triumph of U.S.-led free enterprise. Rebuilding the economies of Eastern Europe now offers huge opportunities, and it will be done in the next decade...