Rumors of War

Rumors of War

Iraq's Phantom First Family.

Where is Saddam Hussein hiding his wife Sajida and their several children? Conflicting reports have placed the dictator's clan in Switzerland, in Mauritania and in northern Zambia. Each location has some plausibility, the last because Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's President, visited Baghdad in early January and has accepted Iraqi financial help.

Hell No, They Won't Go.

Switzerland was said to be abandoning its traditional neutrality by sending allied forces a rather unusual army division: a flock of 34,500 carrier pigeons. The Swiss do have such a unit, but they heatedly deny it will be dispatched to the gulf....

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