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- THE WEEK, Page 28WORLDEt Cetera
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- NOT EVEN A NICE TRY
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- Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister
- Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions.
- With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members
- rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of
- genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered
- with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons
- inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi`ite Muslims and, as
- Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people
- because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security
- forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed.
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- BACK TO DEMOCRACY
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- Encouraged by his 65% approval rating, President Alberto
- Fujimori thought that the candidates he supported for Peru's new
- Congress would easily win more than half the 80 seats up for
- grabs in last week's election. Although the vote is still being
- counted, his delegates seem to have won a comfortable 43 spots
- if not an overwhelming mandate. Yet the election was a no-lose
- situation for the President. By scheduling the vote, Fujimori
- gave the signal that he is committed to restoring Peru's
- democratic institutions.
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