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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
- </p>
- <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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