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Like all of Beene's best work, this coat does not flout tradition, it teases it. Beene keeps rebellion firm but marginal, just as he did as a young medical student, when he sketched dresses on the page borders of his Gray's Anatomy. The year after Geoffrey Beene, Inc., was launched, Beene won the first of an unprecedented eight Coty Awards, the industry's Oscars, for his women's fashions. By the early '70s, he had made a wedding dress for Lynda Bird Johnson and had become one of the country's best-known and most sought-after designers...
...refuses to surrender any of the West Bank and Gaza, and some members even boast they could crush the intifadeh in weeks. Labor leader Shimon Peres has endorsed proposals for negotiations that would return some territory to Arab rule, which many interpret as signifying an inability to quell the rebellion. Rabin seems determined to prove them wrong. Said Shamir media adviser Avi Pazner: "If you take the last nine months, it's certainly helped Labor to have a tough Defense Minister...
Stewart's journalistic career has taken him through wars and upheavals in Viet Nam, India and the Middle East, yet he considers the Burma rebellion unique. "This is the first genuinely popular revolt I have ever witnessed," he says. "The people here have faced armed force with moral force and given the world a lesson in courage." A lesson that Stewart and Tucci, alone among the Western press, have been on hand to record...
...fact that you haven't brought your gas masks with you," Iraqi Defense Minister Adnan Khairallah chided Western journalists assembled in Baghdad. Yet when pressed, Khairallah was unable to deny categorically the allegation that Iraq employed chemical weapons -- outlawed by the 1925 Geneva Protocol -- in putting down a rebellion of Kurds. Asserting that the use of poison gas was "technically impossible" in the Kurdish villages in dispute, Khairallah reiterated Baghdad's position that, in any case, its war against the Kurds was an internal affair, of concern only to Iraq...
...attacks on Butia and other Kurdish villages began three weeks ago, and have prompted fresh denunciations of the government of President Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons in violation of international law. The assaults are part of a drive that has virtually crushed a long-simmering rebellion of the Kurds and punished Kurdish guerrillas -- known as pesh mergas, or "those who face death" -- for collaborating with the enemy during Iraq's eight-year war with Iran. When Iran agreed to a truce on Aug. 20, the Iraqis began to move against the Kurds...