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...only slightly. An October 1964 State Department memo noted that Iraq Petroleum Co. had long fixed production "in accordance with the overall worldwide interests of the participating companies, and not solely in accordance with the interests of Iraq." Later, production was curbed because of internal political turmoil during the '70s, the Iran-Iraq war in the '80s and U.N. sanctions from 1990 until today...
...Qaeda operatives staged a deadly multiple terror attack on Americans and other foreigners. Al Qaeda loves a vacuum - it's no coincidence that the network's headquarters have been in states such as Afghanistan and Sudan, rather than authoritarian autocracies such as Saddam's Iraq. But if the current turmoil in Iraq persists, it would certainly fit the textbook definition of an attractive setting for Bin Laden acolytes seeking new addresses...
...contract goes through, Fowler-Finn will take up the superintendent job in August—coming to a district with a high school in turmoil and where the previous superintendent of schools, Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, was fired over the way she managed elementary school consolidation...
...week, as peasants learned that outsiders possibly exposed to the SARS virus would be quarantined in their hometowns without the locals' consent or knowledge, riots erupted in various parts of the country, from villages near the northern city of Chengde to those in the central province of Henan. The turmoil is the most extreme manifestation of a SARS paranoia fueled by a public increasingly distrustful of government propaganda and fearful that their rulers no longer have their best interests in mind. Intensifying this unease is a vigorous rumor mill that turns careless speculation into doomsday fact. "We don't know...
...Today most of the fires that blazed when I first arrived are out, and there are far fewer explosions and gun battles to be heard at night - the only sound that awakens me now is the morning calling of the birds. Away from the political turmoil of the threatening sheikhs of violence and fundamentalism, on the streets of Baghdad and looking out from my hotel balcony, I no longer know that I am in a country that...