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...Arab world as contemptible. High-minded dissertations by U.S. officials on the sovereignty of nations and the sanctity of the new world order evoke smirks in the suqs of such cities as Algiers, Tunis, Damascus and Amman. "All the Americans want is control of the oil," says Abdul Hamid Sadiq, a Syrian archaeologist. Principle, he adds, means nothing to a country that "ignored the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the occupation of Jerusalem and the daily maiming and killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank...
...Iraqi Ambassador Mohamed Sadiq al Mashat, speaking at the Law School this week in reference to the Iraqi invasion of neighboring Kuwait...
Thus calmly and apparently bloodlessly, the three-year-old civilian government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi was toppled late last week. Although the timing was unexpected, the coup came as no surprise. The armed forces had demonstrated unusual restraint during the Prime Minister's ineffectual reign, which neither advanced a political settlement in the savage six-year-old civil war nor dealt with the country's vicious poverty and famine. Speaking for the rebellious forces, Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed el Bashir said el Mahdi had "wasted the country's time and squandered its energies with much talk and policy...
...situation in Sudan get worse? Last week it did, as workers staged a general strike that closed the airport in Khartoum and shut down most telephone and telex lines. Rumors of coup attempts swept the capital as angry demonstrators took to the streets demanding the head of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi...
...week's end, as police scattering crowds killed at least one demonstrator, the government backed down and revoked the price increases while leaving the pay hikes intact. The swift reversal does not ensure a return to relative stability. The Democratic Unionist Party withdrew from Sadiq's coalition government, and the Prime Minister reportedly intends to form a new Cabinet with his other partner, the Muslim fundamentalist National Islamic Front...