home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=90TT3201>
- <title>
- Nov. 26, 1990: On The Road To Baghdad
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 26, 1990 The Junk Mail Explosion!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 27
- On the Road to Baghdad
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> 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:
- </p>
- <p> Jesse Jackson
- </p>
- <p> His exhaustively publicized journey liberated 47 U.S.
- hostages and helped fill four editions of his syndicated TV
- talk show.
- </p>
- <p> Kurt Waldheim
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> Edward Heath
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> Ramsey Clark
- </p>
- <p> The ex-Attorney General and antiwar activist went to Baghdad
- to campaign for peace and to urge George Bush to "say no to
- war."
- </p>
- <p> Cat Stevens
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-