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...Saddam is doing pretty well these days. Or is he? What the summit demonstrated is that things would be going better for Iraq if it wasn't for Saddam. True, he has been getting richer, thanks to snowballing illegal trade across Iraq's borders with Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iran. The intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is another godsend. With ever louder public demands for an end to Iraqi suffering, Arab states are violating a ban on commercial air travel with regular flights to Baghdad...
Throw the cold sandwich bar meats into the microwave with a slice of provolone, and you've got a turkey or tuna melt...
...accident," observed a woman from Simpsonville, S.C. "Nice people aren't supposed to do that." A Las Vegas reader asked, "If you want Clinton to disappear, why don't you stop following him around?" And a New Yorker, who felt that TIME will never quit Clinton cold turkey, wrote, "I can only hope your next Clinton cover headline will take the incredible-shrinking theme to its logical conclusion: 'The Invisible...
...Still, it's probably safe to say the hijackers are Chechen sympathizers, as the ferryboat hijackers were in 1996. There is a strong and passionate Chechen diaspora community in Turkey, which has often caused problems for the Turks before. It's not exactly a mutual admiration society, even though Istanbul is probably one of the largest centers of the Chechen diaspora, the other major one being Jordan...
...Russians aboard the plane are very ordinary shuttle traders heading home from Turkey, so this really hits home with the Russian public. All afternoon and evening there have been assurances that the country's elite antiterrorism squad will be dispatched to the scene and a special task force established to deal with the hijacking. However Putin has remained off camera, and his precise whereabouts are unknown to the journalists who are covering him on vacation in Siberia. His Kremlin handlers are left to assure the public that even in the Muslim holy city of Medina, their elite antiterrorist squad will...