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- <text id=90TT3262>
- <title>
- Dec. 03, 1990: Dial 1-800-KURD
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 43
- Dial 1-800-KURD
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- <body>
- <p>By RICHARD ZOGLIN/Reported by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> Observers of U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf are
- increasingly puzzled over Washington's failure to play one
- potentially strong card: seeking the support of Iraqi opponents
- to Saddam Hussein, particularly leaders of the oppressed Kurdish
- minority. Washington has dropped heavy hints that it would like
- to see Saddam overthrown, and the Kurds are among Saddam's
- bitterest foes. But so far there have been no calls from
- Washington to the dissidents. The U.S., says a spokesman for
- the Kurdistan Democratic Party, a Kurdish independence group,
- "should look more closely at the internal situation in Iraq. And
- this can only be done by talking to the opposition."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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