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...furtive desert bivouacs are over. The grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow the men of the P.L.O. to carry them is still undecided...
...Jordan who have wives and children but are in their late 20s and early 30s, too young to have fought in the Arab-Israeli wars. ("It is impossible that they are on any Israeli blacklist," says an instructor.) "We're going to Jericho as policemen, not as soldiers," Al Sadi reminds his men. "Being a policeman is much harder. The policeman has to help everyone -- no matter what his nationality -- and forget about his own identity and feelings...
Iraq's National Assembly has no record ofvetoing decisions by Saddam, but reporters counted18 of 250 delegates voting yesterday againstallowing the foreigners to leave. The assemblyspeaker, Sadi Mehdi Saleh, said he counted only 15hands...
...development of a multiparty democracy in a region characterized by dictatorships and feudal monarchies. For his efforts, Bendjedid is being urged by the fundamentalists to dissolve the parliament, which currently seats only members of the ruling party, and hold national elections. "Any attempt to resort to trickery," warns Said Sadi, secretary-general of the Rally for Culture and Democracy, a moderate, secular party that made a poor showing, "will inevitably finish in the streets with helmets against turbans...
...director Jonathan Kaplan imagine a worst-case scenario that poses all of these questions and plays them out in a moral twilight zone where ambiguity gives way to atrocity. The movie boasts a daring, acute performance by Jodie Foster as Sarah, the coarse-mouthed waitress with the SXY SADI license plate, who can fist her face into a pugnacious sulk or vamp persuasively enough to steam your specs. In the process, The Accused has defied Hollywood odds to become an autumn hit, earning $18 million in its first 24 days of release. It has also stoked the hottest movie debate...