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...UNIRAC was only a glancing blow. By 1985 even Gigante's own son Andrew was a union vice president on the docks. Thomas Gleason, president of the I.L.A. until 1987, is reputed to have been a virtual Genovese puppet. Today, at 89, he is paid $100,000 a year as president emeritus and serves on the union's executive council. His successor, John Bowers, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in several recent prosecutions for taking payoffs and even soliciting a murder. In February, a decade after UNIRAC, the U.S. filed a civil racketeering suit that seeks to have...
EGYPT. As the recipient of $2.3 billion annually in U.S. military and economic aid, Egypt was in a difficult position to resist Bush's appeals for support. But that very connection exposes Mubarak to charges that he is an American puppet. He must also juggle domestic considerations. Most Egyptians responded angrily to Saddam's bald annexation of Kuwait. But 1 million of them work in Iraq, 300,000 more in Kuwait, and if Mubarak mishandles the situation, he could put those lives in danger...
...Arab gulf leaders, Fahd is now most vulnerable to charges he is a Western puppet. Shi'ite Muslims have been disputing Saudi custodianship of the holy sites of Mecca and Medina as illegitimate. The presence of foreign forces risks sowing the seeds of long-term agitation to unseat the house of Saud, though the presence of a pan-Arab force will take much of the onus off Fahd...
...invasion, a subsequent announcement made nonsense of that pledge. Baghdad said it was raising a new army for Kuwait in which -- surprise -- 100,000 Iraqis had volunteered to serve. What's more, Baghdad named a new government, composed of nine Kuwaiti army officers, that would clearly be a puppet regime. For all practical purposes, Iraq has annexed its southern neighbor...
...killer instinct go back to his roots in Tikrit, 100 miles north of Baghdad. Born in 1937 the son of peasants, he was orphaned at the age of nine months and raised by an uncle, an army officer named Khairallah Talfah, who hated Britain's domination of Iraq's puppet monarchy. At his knee, the boy learned the ways of intrigue and sneak attack, until Talfah joined in an abortive anti-British coup in 1941 and was imprisoned. Saddam did not attend school until the age of nine and later, when he applied for admission to the elite Baghdad Military...