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...liberated by the allies last week, there were few signs of jubilation. While glad to be freed from Saddam's terror, the mostly Shi'ite population remained suspicious of U.S. motives and fearful that the U.S. would abandon them, as it did during uprisings after Gulf War I. Muhsen Salem, 24, a farmer from Safwan, says he is "very happy now but scared the Americans might leave." Many Iraqis say they are disappointed that humanitarian aid did not begin flowing as soon as U.S. and British forces moved in. Military officials say the second wave of invasion forces--the civil...
Decorum was shattered at the Arab summit in Doha last week when Izzat Ibrahim, the Iraqi envoy, lashed out at Kuwaiti diplomat Mohammed Sabah al-Salem: "Shut up, you monkey ... Curse be upon your mustache." Those are fighting words in a region where men have been cultivating whiskers since the Ottoman Empire. More than a badge of manhood, the mustache is practically a totem: to seal a deal Iraqis literally swear by them; to compliment a man they say "an eagle could land on his mustache." During the Iraq-Iran war, facial hair was an extension of the military uniform...
...Smacked down: Despite Izzat's tirade, Kuwaiti envoy Sabah al-Salem, above, kept a stiff upper...
...president: E. R. Roberts, of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; J. C. Talbot, of Milton, Mass.; W. H. Trumbull, of Salem, Mass...
...PAUL MONASH, 85, film producer of such classics as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Slaughterhouse-Five; after a brief illness; in Los Angeles. He wrote, directed and produced the hit 1960s television series Peyton Place and wrote the TV movies All Quiet on the Western Front and Salem...