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- GRAPEVINE, Page 27On the Road to Baghdad
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- After saying "We cannot be on the sidelines at a time when
- world peace is in jeopardy," ex-Nicaraguan President Daniel
- Ortega arrived in Iraq last week. Daniel Ortega? Come to think
- of it, a lot of world players have been jumping off the bench
- and showing up at midfield Baghdad. Among those:
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- Jesse Jackson
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- His exhaustively publicized journey liberated 47 U.S.
- hostages and helped fill four editions of his syndicated TV
- talk show.
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- Kurt Waldheim
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- The former U.N. Secretary-General, damaged by allegations
- about his Nazi past, showed up early in the gulf crisis and got
- 70 hostages out, thereby helping his campaign to be re-elected
- President of Austria in 1992.
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- Edward Heath
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- The onetime British Prime Minister managed to get 40 of his
- fellow nationals out of Iraq but was criticized back home for
- engaging in wildcat diplomacy.
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- Ramsey Clark
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- The ex-Attorney General and antiwar activist went to Baghdad
- to campaign for peace and to urge George Bush to "say no to
- war."
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- Cat Stevens
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- The British-born pop star, who now calls himself Yusuf
- Islam, has been allowed to set up a "peace camp" for British
- Muslims behind the Iraqi lines and has appeared on Iraqi
- television.
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