Author: DXO
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Iraqi TV Presents a Relaxed Hussein
April 4, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS AGHDAD, Iraq, April 4 — With American troops moving cautiously toward placing the city under siege, Iraqi television tonight showed a 12-minute film of a relaxed and cheerful man it said was Saddam Hussein strolling with apparent nonchalance around Baghdad and stopping to exchange greetings with ordinary Iraqis.…
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A CAPITAL’S PLIGHT: Both the New and Routinely Old Shape Daily Life in Baghdad
April 3, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 3 — For one motorcycle patrolman here today, it seemed to matter little that columns of American troops were nearing the capital, or that the drivers still on the roads might have reasons to hasten in a city under heavy bombing, or even that the…
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CIVILIANS: Iraq Shows Casualties in Hospital
April 2, 2003 By TYLER HICKS with JOHN F. BURNS HILLA, Iraq, April 2 — The boy was bewildered, perhaps 10 or 11, separated from his parents, lying on a hospital gurney. All about was chaos, mothers weeping for their dead and wounded children, doctors and nurses shouting to be heard, coffins shouldered along the…
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GoogObits: Work (LARRY A. ROSENBAUM, 56)
Today we see how the gift of life was not squandered. Larry Rosenbaum was given the stereotypical “two years to live”. He took much more than he was given. And he gave a large company a set of intellectual property relating to the use of plastics. We are all work for hire.
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GoogObits: Things (LENORE BRESLAUER, 80)
LOS ANGELES — Lenore Breslauer, a founding member of the anti-war citizen group Another Mother for Peace during the Vietnam War, has died. She was 80.