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s to the far corners of the world; our closest staff members; my new Secret Service detail; some of the In mid-month we had a new crisis in Iraq, when Saddam expelled six American members of the UN weapons inspection teams. I had been a big admirer of his since he stood up on a tank to oppose an attempted coup ten months earlier. We had enjoyed some wonderful times with Hussein and Noor in Jordan and in the United States.

Starr’s tactics were beginning to draw the attention of the press. The massive oak doors opened, revealing the pontiff in his resplendent white cassock and cape, and the crowd stood and began to clap. troops to Somalia to help the UN after more than 350,000 Somalis had died in a bloody civil war, which brought famine and disease in its wake. Rostenkowski was a superb legislator who combined a fine mind with Chicago street skills, but he was being investigated for conve