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...sense of inevitability about war grows, the region's leaders have begun to abandon their fellow head of state. Normally cautious Saudi Arabia has been publicly brandishing a knife at Saddam, pushing an initiative that could provide him an escape--voluntary exile--but is aimed more at provoking his overthrow by promising potential coupmakers amnesty from war-crimes prosecution. "I can visualize elements of the regime turning away," Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told TIME...
...weapons of mass destruction against foreign enemies as well as its own people. Saud insisted that the initiative targets no specific "personalities," yet it is clear that a major aim is to isolate Saddam by giving his military commanders a sweet incentive to cooperate with the U.N. and even overthrow...
...aggression and terror, some of them are turning against him. With the Bush administration signaling its intention to fight a new Middle Eastern war, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal is revealing for the first time details of a Saudi proposal that could isolate Saddam, encourage his overthrow and thereby avert...
Beneath the Administration's confidence that a war with Iraq can be won quickly with limited U.S. casualties lurks an anxiety about the catastrophic events an invasion might trigger. "We can overthrow Saddam Hussein, no doubt about it," says a Central Command planner. "The question is, Can we do it and keep his weapons of mass destruction bottled up at the same time?" The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no. "If they come," said Uday Hussein last week, "Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic...
...journeyed to Vienna to meet with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev, who was built along the lines of a Soviet tank, sized up the slender young American President and mistakenly assumed he could be pushed around. Knowing that J.F.K. was still reeling from the CIA's failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, he threatened to move against Berlin. "It will be a cold winter," Kennedy said. As matters turned out, it was a cold October the next year. Emboldened by the U.S. defeat at the Bay of Pigs, Khrushchev put offensive missiles in Cuba, and the world came as close...