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<text id=91TT0365>
<title>
Feb. 18, 1991: Not By Brutality Alone
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 13
Not by Brutality Alone
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<p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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<p> Iraq's dictator has long employed fear to keep his people
in line. But Saddam Hussein has also tried kindness rather than
killing. When the Iran-Iraq war began in 1980, he ordered
20,000 Chevy Malibus to be distributed among army officers and
families of fallen soldiers. Tight money and high casualties
soon forced Iraq to cancel that order after about 2,000 cars
were delivered; Saddam later substituted Volkswagens and other
inexpensive cars. Moreover, the Iraqi treasury pledged to pay
$40,000 to any man who married a war widow. For the bravest
survivors, Saddam ordered 150 ceremonial swords (price: up to
$50,000 each), crafted in a small village in Tuscany. Last year
the Italian goldsmiths may have got an early tip about the
dictator's plans when Iraq placed an order for 100 fancy
sabers. Twenty were delivered just four days before the
invasion of Kuwait.
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</body></article>
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