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Late last month the U.N. agreed to assume the administration of allied-built refugee centers for Kurds returning to Iraq from the northern border, where they had fled after their failed rebellion against Saddam in March. That was fine with Baghdad, which had itself asked the world body to do just that. The allies, however, also want to hand over to the U.N. the job of protecting the Kurds from further reprisals by Saddam's forces. As it is, nearly 20,000 allied troops are in northern Iraq watching over the Kurds, and their governments are anxious to bring them...
RELIGION Why some Baptists are plotting a rebellion...
...finished in the name of a foolishly consistent prudence. This is the impracticality of practical men, and this is clearly what controlled the Bush Administration's first response to the plight of the Kurds. Not wanting to become bogged down in Iraq's internal affairs, we left the Kurdish rebellion to its fate. We should have seen that a six-week air war was already a massive intervention in Iraq's affairs. If Saddam was dangerous enough to be bombed out of Kuwait, then his internal enemies, the Kurds and the Shi'ites, ought to have been helped...
...visions were more diffuse, and the paintings of his last decade (he died in 1976) are feebly hermetic. No matter. He was always a painter for the young; his own youth speaks to that of others. Each generation discovers him for itself, finding its instincts of rebellion confirmed by him, as by a deliciously conspiratorial uncle. The last Ernst retrospective was in 1979. There ought to be one every 15 years or so, as a public service, like vaccination...
...public fury and condemnation for his brutal suppression of the rebels, George Bush has borne the brunt of the blame for Western inaction. The President not only failed to explain clearly why the U.S. was unwilling to support the insurgents, but he seemed to show no mercy when their rebellion turned into a rout. Declared Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory: "The sight of those wretched souls streaming into Turkey . . . as Bush abandons them on the 18th hole of a Florida golf course, makes you wonder if in this case it is peace, rather than war, that is hell...