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TIME Cairo correspondent Bill Dowell faced comparable difficulties when he had to travel to Liberia to co-report our cover story. With Monrovia's main airport still under rebel control following the bloody civil war that ousted President Samuel Doe, Dowell flew in on a tiny Cessna that landed on a , makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin...
...Roberts is the next step. He sings jolly hate songs as his parents sang Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (a tune that Robbins' father Gil made famous as a member of the '60s folk group the Highwaymen). Bob Roberts is an anti-Bob Dylan; the anthem of this rebel conservative is Times Are Changin' Back...
...push he did. Early in the year, he deployed 15 divisions along the internal border with the Kurdish-held north. More recently he reportedly stepped up attacks on the Shi'ite south, draining wells and defoliating the marshlands to target rebel enclaves better. Saddam also thumbed his nose at the international community, impeding the work of U.N. inspection teams, blocking aid convoys and attacking U.N. guards...
...allied action was prompted by evidence that 70 Iraqi combat aircraft were being used to attack Shi'ite villages and rebel camps in the swamps and islands in the Basra region, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into the gulf. That violates a U.N. resolution, passed after the Gulf War, prohibiting Saddam's "repression" of his own people. A similar protection zone has been in effect in northern Kurdish regions since April...
Behind the mayhem is rebel mujahedin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who apparently decided he could not afford to allow President Burhanuddin Rabbani's interim government to gain much stability. On Aug. 2, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif was due to arrive in Kabul, and Hekmatyar's rockets closed the airport. On Aug. 8, Rabbani was to fly to Tehran. The attacks intensified again. Since he was due in Pakistan last week for meetings with Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, it was predictable that the rockets would come in more heavily than ever. Last week's barrage left 600 people dead...