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...officers and families of fallen soldiers. Tight money and high casualties soon forced Iraq to cancel that order after about 2,000 cars were delivered; Saddam later substituted Volkswagens and other inexpensive cars. Moreover, the Iraqi treasury pledged to pay $40,000 to any man who married a war widow. For the bravest survivors, Saddam ordered 150 ceremonial swords (price: up to $50,000 each), crafted in a small village in Tuscany. Last year the Italian goldsmiths may have got an early tip about the dictator's plans when Iraq placed an order for 100 fancy sabers. Twenty were delivered...
...Evers' widow Myrlie produced a 1,500-page transcript of the earlier trials, though prosecutors had previously said that all known copies had disappeared. Then Beckwith's long-missing rifle mysteriously turned up in the garage of DeLaughter's father-in-law. Finally, two black witnesses are expected to place Beckwith in the vicinity of the shooting. Beckwith is fighting extradition to Mississippi. A hearing is scheduled...
...partner in the movement's leadership, Sheik Hasina Wazed, now stand a good chance of ruling their desperately poor, densely ) populated Muslim homeland of 110 million. Hasina, 43, is a daughter of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the 19-year-old nation's founding father, while Khaleda, 46, is the widow of Ziaur Rahman, the South Asian country's military ruler from 1975 to 1981. Both leaders were assassinated in army revolts...
Though his accomplishments were virtually unknown outside the conservation community, the shot that killed him echoed around the world. His widow Ilzamar, now 25, was soon traveling to the U.S. and other countries to accept posthumous awards showered on Mendes by environmental groups. She sold the rights to his story for more than $1 million. Producer David Puttnam will make a movie; numerous books, TV documentaries and magazine articles are in the works...
Smith is much stronger as a raconteur, depicting the grief of a widow in Nagorno-Karabakh whose son was axed in half by marauding Azerbaijanis, or the fear of a Ukrainian farmer whose state subsidies are in doubt, or the shock of a lifetime apparatchik who faces opposition for the first time in his political career for his seat in the Soviet Parliament...