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...threat of war loomed large yesterday, hundreds of students and activists marched from Cambridge to Boston expressing raucous opposition to U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf...
Stepping forth once again into the arena of foreign affairs, the City Council urged President Bush Monday night to withdraw all U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf and called on city residents to join a last minute grass-roots effort to avoid...
BOSTON--As American forces in the Persian Gulf made their final preparations for war, police arrested about 65 anti-war protesters yesterday morning, including six Harvard students, as they blocked major intersections around the city and vowed to prevent "business as usual" in Boston...
...biggest risk is the prospect of a widespread bank collapse. The trigger could be a protracted war in the Persian Gulf, which could, in turn, deepen the recession and force debt-laden companies into massive loan defaults. Collapsing banks would aggravate the downward spiral by drying up credit and leaving taxpayers with another painful bailout bill. The disaster scenario may be plausible, but most experts doubt that bank failures will come close to the magnitude of the S&L fiasco, which will cost Americans as much as $1 trillion over the next 30 years. Despite the banking industry's problems...
Awad's involvement with Rashid began in Baghdad. A former captain in the Syrian army, Awad had knocked around the Persian Gulf for a few years before he and one of his brothers settled down in Iraq. By 1982 he had his own construction firm and a lucrative contract to lay foundations for a string of warehouses at Baghdad's military airport. Early that year he met a handsome 30-year-old expatriate from Jerusalem named Mohammed Rashid. Awad knew Rashid was with the fedayeen -- freedom fighters -- but that was not unusual among Palestinians. Awad would go on picnics with...