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...Defectors Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel returned to Iraq with their wives, both daughters of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday. The party moved back to Iraq in a 25-vehicle caravan after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council answered al-Majid's request for a pardon with the vague promise that he would be treated like "an ordinary citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead. He lived...
...PARDON MY DUST...
...jubilee opens, a historic reckoning seems at hand. Decades of tinkering with the system are at a dead end. Resistance to change within a proliferation of petty baronies and bishoprics has buried in paper nearly every major reform effort. A growing view holds that the U.N. must be reinvented--pardon the expression--in a basic way. Declares Dragoljub Najman, a native Yugoslav who worked in the U.N.'s cultural arm for 30 years: "It's become too large, it's underfinanced, and it's under serious fire. The question you must ask yourself then is whether...
...fact that someone I believed to be a cold-blooded murderer was walking home, ill at the fact that the smug "Dream Team" was displaying its joy at having beaten the justice system. And most of all, I felt ill watching O.J. thank the jury for granting him a pardon...
...ugly strain of Zionism. For him to say that comparing Jews to Nazis is always wrong is for him to betray himself as a racist. Being Jewish gives no man or woman immunity from cruelty. Being a Jews, as a matter of blood or faith, does not pardon any man or woman from the full moral stain of fascistic conduct...