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...union under the most trying conditions. A potentially fractious match to begin with -- he a formidable, eloquent, revolutionary lawyer; she a fiery, militant social worker 16 years his junior -- the Mandelas have survived 27 years of separation dictated by Pretoria's imprisonment of Nelson for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government by force...
...event, George Bush has made the humanitarian task more difficult by cloaking the U.S. mission in self-defeating rhetoric. Stung by those who say he ended the gulf war too soon (which is arguable) and that he moved to aid the hapless Kurds too late after inciting them to overthrow Saddam (which isn't), the President is now bothered about the prospect of U.S. troops getting "bogged down" in a "further military" involvement, a "permanent presence" -- a "quagmire...
When Bush wanted to free a country from external invasion, liberals criticized Bush for interfering with Middle East politics. Now they want him to help overthrow the government of one of the major countries in the region...
Iraqi opposition leaders say the Saudis are working on a secret deal to help overthrow Saddam Hussein. Makeshift camps have been set up near Saudi and Kuwaiti border towns for thousands of Shi'ite refugees. While the world's attention is focused on the tragedy of the Kurds, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah has agreed in principle to let anti-Saddam Iraqis, mostly Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, set up training sites as a base for infiltrating Iraq. The Saudis are "much more committed to overthrowing Saddam Hussein than the allies are," says Muwafaq al-Rubai...
...keep them from becoming refugees. Critics such as Democratic Senator Thomas Daschle of South Dakota and columnist William Safire charge that the U.S. made a terrible mistake by not helping the Kurds and Shi'ites. The argument is usually couched in moral terms: having repeatedly called on Iraqis to overthrow Saddam, the U.S. is disgracing itself by standing idly by while those who heeded its word are slaughtered. New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal bitterly asked Bush: "Why do you sully your name, and our country's, by deliberately allowing Saddam Hussein to massacre the people you urged to rise...