SADDAM CHANGES COURSE: Faced with unified opposition, Iraqi president seeks new bloc 3 Edition

WASHINGTON, D.C. - CONFRONTED WITH the increasing superpower Sunday's summit in Helsinki, Finland, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is pursuing a new, more passive strategy designed to exploit the changing world political alignment, according to U.S. and Arab officials and analysts. Over the past...

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Published inThe Vancouver sun (1986)
Main Author ROBIN WRIGHT: MICHAEL ROSS
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver, B.C Postmedia Network Inc 10.09.1990
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Washington, D.C
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Summary:WASHINGTON, D.C. - CONFRONTED WITH the increasing superpower Sunday's summit in Helsinki, Finland, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is pursuing a new, more passive strategy designed to exploit the changing world political alignment, according to U.S. and Arab officials and analysts. Over the past week, Saddam's speeches have been heavily laced with Islamic citations, a glaring anomaly for the leader of a strictly secular, socialist nation. In a televised speech addressed to President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev Saturday, Saddam warned that "angels" were watching what they did. Saddam also has appealed to Arab nationalism and developing nations for humanitarian aid, specifically food and medicine, his greatest immediate vulnerability. Virtually all of the countries that are considering sending food and medicine to Baghdad are Arab, Muslim or developing nations. Among them are Brazil, India, Yugoslavia and Iran.
ISSN:0832-1299