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...weapons inspector suggested that Iraq may have produced bacteria for biological weapons. "We have certain suspicions about one facility," said Rolf Ekeus, adding the U.N. Special Commission overseeing the destruction of Iraq's non-conventional weapons was told the material had "disappeared in the general turmoil" during the Gulf...
...joining hands to secure their independence from an increasingly shaky Saddam, who escaped yet another coup attempt earlier this month. Instead Kurds are killing one another, and northern Iraq and beyond are growing dangerously unstable. Meanwhile, neighboring Turkey, at war with rebellious Kurds in its provinces, was in turmoil last week from rioting by extremist Islamic and nationalist groups. "The area is extremely volatile--all of it," says a worried senior Clinton Administration official. Still more tinder piled up last week after Saddam seized two American civilians who seemed to have accidentally wandered across the border from Kuwait...
...fire. The Pentagon is uneasy about its warplanes continuing to guard the Kurd enclave in the designated no-fly zone. "We're supposed to be protecting the Kurds, but to do what--have a civil war?" asks a frustrated Pentagon official. Among his Arab neighbors, Saddam is touting the turmoil in the north as an example of what will happen to the rest of Iraq if he is deposed. "It makes him look less odious," says a Middle East expert at the State Department. "He's still evil, but at least he keeps the country together." If the fighting continues...
...once mighty American buck was worth little more than 88 yen and 1.36 marks (it fetched 238 yen and 2.94 marks in 1985); so far this year, the dollar has skidded 9% against both the yen and the mark. But the dollar's troubles were only part of the turmoil: the British pound, the French franc and the Italian lira also tumbled, and the Mexican peso resumed its free fall until the country's harsh new austerity plan led to a rebound. On top of that, governments were forced to devalue the Spanish peseta, the Portuguese escudo and the Brazilian...
Twelve student groups were recognized by the committee, many of which had waited for recognition since lastfall, but were held up in the turmoil over whetherto grant recognition to Harvard Christians inAction...