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Article: BAGHDAD'S LUSTER DIMS IN FACE OF WAR.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 6, 1991
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Byline: Dilip Ganguly Associated Press
A mood of gloom has settled over the city of the "Thousand and One Nights." Nightclubs are closing. The belly dancers have gone home. No one jokes about the prospect of war, as they did a few weeks ago.
There are no signs of panic, but many Iraqis now believe armed conflict is inevitable as the Jan. 15 U.N. deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Kuwait or face possible attack nears.
Some Iraqis believe that Wednesday's planned meeting between Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and Secretary of State James A. Baker III in Geneva only will delay hostilities.
"America will never accept Palestine, and unless ...