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...Saddam Hussein's holograms projected for the world audience, and it caught a flavor of the war -- the shameless and the sinister commingled, a little sham of baby's milk spilled in the Mother of Battles...
...President insists he wants to sign a civil rights bill, but not one that will force "businesses to adopt quotas in hiring and promotion." Democratic leaders say the President's excuse is a sham. "We've met every legitimate concern of the Administration, and our efforts have been met with nothing but political sloganeering," charges Texan Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
...claim advanced by Palestinians that their "demonstration" was in response to a Jewish attempt to lay the cornerstone for a third temple stands out as a sham as well. A group of Jews known as the "Temple Mount Faithful" does fantasize about a return to the Solomonic era, but they are a radical fringe group of Jews, an organization probably no larger than the Crimson Key Society...
...next day, that hypocritical display of hospitality was exposed as a sham. U.S. embassy staff and dependents who had traveled to Baghdad from Kuwait City late in the week, apparently with the assurance that they would be permitted to continue to safety in Jordan, were detained. They had made the trip after Washington decided to evacuate everyone but the ambassador, Nathaniel Howell, and a skeleton staff. That decision followed the refusal of the U.S. -- and most other countries with diplomatic business in Kuwait -- to obey Iraq's order that all embassies be closed, in keeping with Saddam's contention that...
Critics of the about-face pointed out that the A.B.A. often takes positions on controversial constitutional questions, including flag burning, the right to die and gay rights. "It is an absolute sham to think that neutrality can ever be attained again," said Estelle Rogers, who spearheaded the movement to save the pro-choice resolution. "This gives comfort to people who want to criminalize abortion." The only thing the two sides seemed to agree upon is that the schism will result in continued -- and acrimonious -- debate...