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Article: One Saddam, one vote. (President Saddam Hussein, Iraq)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 8, 1989
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Iraq One Saddam, one vote
ON APRIL 17th Iraqi diplomats are due to meet their Iranian counterparts in Geneva for a new round of peace talks. They are unlikely to negotiate a formal end to the Gulf war while Iran's leadership is in its present condition of internecine turmoil. Still, nobody expects the Gulf war to resume. Fortified by the lull, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein is consolidating his control at home and dabbling cautiously in some new adventures abroad.
During the eight years of war against Iran, President Hussein made his power absolute by clamping tight personal control on the army, the Baath party and the ubiquitous mukhabarat, the secret ...