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...expensive equipment during the war. "I took some things home but some of it I had to leave," he said. "All these shops are closed and empty," he said, pointing down the street and shops that were indeed closed and empty. "We wish Saddam Hussein's heart would soften and he would go into exile instead of fighting with America. I'm not as worried about myself as much as about the people in Baghdad...
...says he did it "half drunk, with bloodshot eyes, monster breath and a raging, skull-rattling hangover" after a night spent partying with the cast of Saturday Night Live. He also claims that "between 25% and 40%" of Major League players use steroids. Wells, who says he may soften up some passages before the book hits stores, was 0-1 in preseason action last week with an ERA of 9.00. Get that man some beer and steroids...
...already begun. Just as they did before the 1991 Gulf War, British and American commanders are doing everything they can to soften up Iraq for invasion. "We're on the offensive," says a senior Western diplomat in neighboring Kuwait. "We're in there. This war starts on our terms...
...American advisers have recently been seen visiting PUK command posts on the Ansar frontline. Speculation abounds that U.S. bombers will soften the terrorists' bunkers in the lead-up to a Kurdish assault. Anything Komal could have offered in whittling away Ansar's support would have been helpful to the cause. That is now lost, with mourner's at Qasre's funeral charging the PUK with his assassination, rejecting claims that government soldiers had overreacted in nervous anticipation of another suicide bomber. That suggests they've been pushed back into the arms of Ansar, who may be the biggest beneficiaries...
...rejectionist history of opposing settlements. Annan can take some comfort from the fact that Papadopoulos recently seems to have had a change of heart. During his election campaign, Papadopoulos had the crucial backing of AKEL, Cyprus' powerful communist party, which is strongly in favor of reunification. "Papadopoulos had to soften up because ... AKEL is traditionally moderate and open with the Turkish Cypriot community," says one Cypriot political strategist in Nicosia. In his victory speech, Papadopoulos made a point of pledging to work with Turkish Cypriot "compatriots" to find a settlement. International mediators have been trying to find a solution...