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Mounting concern for the plight of hungry Iraqi citizens is also forcing Washington and its European allies to temper their hard-line stance on continued economic sanctions. The drumbeat to ease the embargo began when Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, who heads the U.N.'s relief efforts in the gulf, warned that food and medicine shortages presented "a humanitarian crisis that could degenerate into a catastrophe." His recommendation: a U.N.-regulated sale of Iraqi oil to raise $2.6 billion, enough to cover humanitarian needs for the next four months. Last week the Bush Administration reluctantly supported a one-time-only...
...apparent softening of the U.S. position is really no more than hard political reality: Bush cannot appear to be indifferent to the plight of innocent Iraqi citizens. Washington officials believe, with good cause, that Saddam has ample food to feed his people. Since March 22, the Security Council's sanctions committee has received notice of exporters' intentions to ship more than 2 million tons of food to Iraq -- nearly one ton for every nine Iraqis. In addition, Baghdad has been permitted to import generators, medical supplies, water pumps and water-treatment systems...
...Conservative Political Action Committee. In addition to a monthly newsletter, MediaWatch, and the reference book And That's the Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias, the center also publishes TV, etc., a guide to left-wing influences in the entertainment business. Topics range from the plight of devout Christian actors forced to go undercover in atheistic Hollywood to the "radical environmentalist agenda" propagated by Ted Turner's cartoon program Captain Planet and the Planeteers...
...speech that the national media had unforgivably failed to reprint verbatim. It was no Gettysburg Address. In the same issue a story ran that chided Gloria Monty, executive producer of TV's General Hospital, for wanting to use the show to explore such issues as the environment and the plight of working-class people. The fiend...
...health-care worker. And epidemiologists quickly point out that all five cases can be traced to the same Florida dentist, David Acer. But the fact remains that it did happen, despite the odds and with devastating results. Already one of Acer's patients, Kimberly Bergalis, is near death; her plight and her understandable fury have moved millions to feel insecure when they go for teeth cleaning or an annual physical exam. Nearly 6,800 health-care workers in the U.S. are known to have AIDS -- including 170 dentists and dental hygienists, 730 physicians and more than 1,450 nurses. Should...