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...continue, at least until May, the near total economic embargo that Baghdad desperately wants lifted. Middle-class Iraqi families are drawing from savings to pay for food. The dinar, which traded a year ago at 150 to the dollar, has plunged to 1,500 against the dollar. Crime is rampant in the capital, which has also experienced a rash of car-bomb attacks by dissidents and possibly Iranian agents. There is widespread grumbling in Saddam's 350,000-man army and even dissent within the alite Republican Guard. "He's feeling the greatest pressure he's felt since the Gulf...
...monumental problem. "I inherited a police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...
...monumental problem. "I inherited a police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...
...monumental problem. "I inherited a police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...
...monumental problem. "I inherited a police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...