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...been governed by men with ambitions to expand their country's borders. Whether a successor to Saddam would perpetuate that tradition is unknowable. But as long as Saddam himself is around, trouble will be close by. He is, after all, the same Saddam whose air force crippled the U.S.S. Stark with an Exocet missile three years ago. (A mistake, said Baghdad, and apologized.) Saddam sees himself as the rightful ruler of the Arab world -- and he is embarked on a nuclear-weapons development program that the CIA says could be successful in three to five years. Thus the unstated third...
While Saddam stirs fear, he also commands respect. His appetite for provocative and forceful action stands in stark contrast to the vacillating, foot-dragging and facile reversals that characterize the leadership of many other Arab states. His decisiveness appeals to those Arabs who dream of pan- Arab unification and worship Arab dignity. They see in Saddam a modern-day answer to the leadership vacuum opened by the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. They also applaud his unwavering hostility toward those whom he perceives as enemies, especially Israel. "Saddam fulfills the ambitions of the Arab people," says Ahmed...
...debacle, they will buy the G.O.P. argument that it was "the Democratic congressional leadership that was in bed with the S&L operators." More important, Black contends, the President will earn new respect for his efforts to negotiate a deficit-reduction compromise with Congress. Yet by a stark majority (60% to 34%), Americans think Bush was wrong to abandon his "no new taxes" pledge...
...examples of bovine idols, they have never found a calf that predates the Exodus, which scholars think took place between 1500 and 1200 B.C. Last week, though, a team of Harvard archaeologists announced they had done just that. During excavations in the ancient port city of Ashkelon, Rachel Stark, 20, a student volunteer, accidentally uncovered a statue of a calf inside a pottery container. Says Stark: "I didn't realize what I had found...
...Corporation's final choice ensured achanged agenda for the coming decades. Bok was alawyer, his pragmatism a stark contrast to Pusey'smoralistic world view. When protesters hadoccupied the Law School library, Bok didn't callin the police. Instead, he brought them donuts andcoffee, staying late into the night to discusstheir demands...