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...those of predominantly Shi'ite rebels staging a simultaneous uprising in the south have plainly spooked Saddam. Last weekend in an apparent bid to soothe popular discontent, Saddam relinquished one of his posts, that of Prime Minister, and named a new 24-member Cabinet. The new Prime Minister, Saadoun Hammadi, formerly deputy PM, is a Shi'ite and, within the context of the ruling Baath Party, is considered a moderate. But the changes are unlikely to convince the Iraqi masses that the regime has truly turned over a new leaf, especially since the ironhanded Interior Minister, Ali Hassan Majid...
Thus it was no wonder the eyes of the world were focused on Moscow last Monday, Feb. 18, when President Gorbachev met for several hours with Aziz. Saadoun Hammadi, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, attended the meeting, as did Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh. I also took part...
Iran was at the center of another mystery last week. What was Francois Scheer, general secretary of the French Foreign Ministry, doing in Tehran at the same time as Saadoun Hammadi, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, along with veteran would-be peacemakers from Algeria and Yemen? Cooking up some sort of compromise settlement, as the British suspected and his Iranian hosts mischievously hinted? Certainly not, huffed a spokesman in Paris; Scheer was only pursuing a variety of bilateral French-Iranian matters...
...fast. The Kremlin has been / harshly critical of Baghdad. Gorbachev, who cut his August vacation short to deal with his country's economic problems, publicly lambasted Saddam's "perfidy and blatant violation of international law." What's more, Soviet officials reportedly gave visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadi a dressing down over the hostage affair. But Moscow is not keen to see a military solution -- which the U.S. would clearly dominate -- rule out a diplomatic one, for which the Soviets might be key. Aside from Hammadi, Moscow has played host to Saudi special envoy Prince Bandar Bin Sultan...
...Arab Muslim people who make up about 20% of Iraq's 17 million population. After U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed that Iraq was using chemical weapons once again, Secretary of State George Shultz last week delivered a searing protest in a 50-minute meeting at the State Department with Saadoun Hammadi, Iraq's Foreign Affairs Minister. And the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would impose economic sanctions against Baghdad...