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Tony Horwitz, a London-based reporter for the Wall Street Journal, visited the Middle East as a free-lance writer during the 1980s. Eric Hansen sailed the Red Sea and discovered the charms of North Yemen as a free spirit. Another difference between the two books: Baghdad Without a Map is about an observant and witty man trying to make a living; Motoring with Mohammed is about a man who has evidently discovered how to live without...
Hansen's pleasantly elliptical narrative slides over a 10-year period at the end of which the author returns to North Yemen to retrieve his journals, buried for safekeeping on the island. It is not much of a payoff, though along the way Hansen delivers a lush portrait of a society that has managed to survive even though there seems to be a Kalashnikov for every copy of the Koran...
Iran was at the center of another mystery last week. What was Francois Scheer, general secretary of the French Foreign Ministry, doing in Tehran at the same time as Saadoun Hammadi, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, along with veteran would-be peacemakers from Algeria and Yemen? Cooking up some sort of compromise settlement, as the British suspected and his Iranian hosts mischievously hinted? Certainly not, huffed a spokesman in Paris; Scheer was only pursuing a variety of bilateral French-Iranian matters...
...force has united against Iraq. Yet this force would not exist were it not for U.S. pressure. U.S. bribes and threats are all that hold this "coalition" together. The U.S. had to forgive Egyptian and Turkish debts to gain support. On the other hand, anticipating a "no" vote by Yemen on a recent U.N. Security Council resolution, the American ambassador was instructed to tell the Yemeni envoy that it would be "the costliest `no' vote you will ever make...
...Rounding up support for that resolution was the focus of intense American diplomatic efforts last week, including talks by President Bush with other government leaders at the 34-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) gathering in Paris and travels by Secretary of State James Baker from Yemen, which holds the Security Council presidency in December, to Colombia...