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...view of some Iraq watchers, Hussein Kamel, whose teeter-totter fortunes looked to be on the upswing again recently, has been advocating a more aboveboard treatment of U.N. monitors, whose job is to search out and police the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. According to this line, the general, who in the first place had presided over the stockpiling of Iraq's most dangerous arsenals, argued that the sooner the regime comes clean, the quicker the country might resume oil exports and normal economic life. At bottom, though, the quarrel seems to have been over spoils...
...consistent athlete and freshest stylist. Skating to Lecuona's Malaguena, she showed the delicacy and pace that make her a joy to watch. In the long -- 4- min. -- format she fumbled one triple jump, but everyone else in contention did at least that. In the current high-vaulting, teeter-totter world of skating, to jump is to survive, to land upright is to prevail...
These are not the big-budget movies that solemnly announce the importance of their subject matter and often totter off into oblivion clutching a Best Picture Oscar -- emotional irrelevancy's consolation prize. The true genre- bending films are less pretentious, less carefully calculated entertainments that may have only a hazy idea of their objectives. And (best thing about them, really) they have a way of driving some people -- the ones who think movies ought to be a realistic medium or an ideologically correct one -- crazy...
Other Communist regimes began to totter when disaffected citizens filled foreign embassies demanding freedom to leave. Fidel Castro is determined to avoid that fate. Rather than permit 15 Cubans seeking asylum in the Spanish embassy in Havana to depart, he angrily renounced a $2.5 million economic cooperation program with Spain. And in a fiery three-hour speech marking the 37th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Castro accused the U.S. of instigating the wave of embassy break-ins that created the diplomatic standoff...
According to the Holy Koran, the world will end not through fire or flood but by earthquake. "The earthquake of the Hour of Doom is a terrible thing," reads the Koran. Mothers will abandon their babies. Humankind will totter as if in a drunken stupor. There is no escape. The earth will give up its secrets. All good will be revealed. And all evil...