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...meeting drew much attention in the U.S. 10 months later after Baghdad released a partial transcript of the conversation. When Saddam raised the issue of the 1981 Israeli bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor, Dole reminded him, "We condemned the Israeli attack." Simpson, in particular, came off badly: "I believe that your problems lie with the Western media and not with the U.S. government," he advised Saddam...
...diplomat in Riyadh calls Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani's performance during the gulf conflict a "tour de force." By offering sanctuary to Iraqi planes, he mollified his troublesome right wing. By not returning them, he won points with the allies; he may also get to keep the jets as partial reparation for losses sustained by Iran in its own war with Iraq. In general, Iran's neutrality brought the country some international respectability, and even Washington is assessing the possibility of more cordial relations...
...face the choice between a prolonged conflict or a partial survival of Saddam's power. Our overwhelming force will prevail. But what will we do after we have destroyed a good portion of Iraq's military, ravaged Iraq's industrial infrastructure, severed fresh-water-supply systems in major cities and driven Iraqi military forces out of Kuwait? Will we pursue the retreating Iraqis mile by mile, ultimately to impose unconditional surrender...
...doesn't it change the equation that journalists in Baghdad are not permitted to report the "whole truth"? The choice, of course, is not between partial truth and the whole truth; it is between partial truth and no truth at all. Reports from Baghdad, on CNN for example, come with more warning labels than a bottle of pills. But no amount of caveats and qualifications will satisfy some people, who want no pictures of dead Iraqis unless "balanced" by pictures of dead Kuwaitis. They are like people who complain that the media never report all the planes that land safely...
...Willie Nelson is on the road again, it may be because he has no place else to go. Last week the Internal Revenue Service auctioned off two of the country singer's homes, taken as partial payment of back taxes and penalties. The agency sold Nelson's Evergreen, Colo., retreat for $650,000, and his ranch in Dripping Springs, Texas, went to Nelson supporter John Arens for $203,000. The IRS claims that Nelson owes the government a total of $16.7 million for failing to file tax returns from 1975 to 1977 and for taking invalid deductions. The singer...