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Especially since the Sept. 11 attacks, for which he feared immediate American retaliation, Saddam has taken measures to tighten his protection. The inner circle of guardians, known as al-Himaya, is made up exclusively of close relatives. Says a senior U.S. official: "They're the ones standing with weapons in the background of photos you see of Saddam." The next circle is the Murafiqoun, also related by blood or from unimpeachable families, who are in charge of broader personal and family security and crowd control for Saddam. The outermost circle is the elite SSO, run by son Qusay...
...When minority groups get access to a place of power we get conservative and tighten up,” Rajbanshi says. “The first thing you have to defend then is your own ethnic group’s enclave...
Voters in the Republic of Ireland rejected a government proposal to tighten the country's strict abortion laws. The proposed change to the constitution would have ruled out the threat of suicide as legal grounds for a termination of pregnancy. Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said he was disappointed with the result, which was carried by less than...
...endowment has shrunk to a paltry $18.3 billion, approximately $7.8 billion of which belongs to the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS). With only 5.5 times the GDP of Haiti in the bank the prudent penny-counters at the Harvard Corporation have decided to play it safe and tighten the purse strings. In dollars the amount of money paid out of the endowment will be only 2 percent larger than the amount paid last year, the lowest percentage increase in a decade...
...women go because, under Irish law, only a threat to a mother's life is legal grounds for abortion. Next week, the country will vote on a constitutional amendment that would tighten the E.U.'s most restrictive abortion law further by eliminating psychiatric threats - in other words, potential suicide - from consideration. Whatever happens at the polls, most Irish women who consider an abortion won't be affected. This referendum debate has been about the rare hard cases. The day-to-day reality - about 10% of Irish pregnancies end in overseas abortions - has been largely overlooked...