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From April 24 to May 2, the Society of Arab Students is promoting an Iraq Awareness Campaign and will be sponsoring speeches by Hans von Sponeck, the former U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, as well as Anthony Arnove, editor of the recently released work "Iraq Under Siege." The week aims to deconstruct the misleading portrait of Iraq which has become predominant in the U.S. media...

Author: By Lama N. Jarudi, | Title: Seeking the True Face of Iraq | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

...Afrika Korps, finally agreed to surrender-but only to their old enemy, the Eighth Army. The First Army, then pressing the 90th, turned this proposal down, and fighting continued as the 90th fought southward toward the Eighth. In the end, the 90th's commander, General Count von Sponeck, surrendered to Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg, commander of the Eighth Army's New Zealanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Germans in Defeat | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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