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<text id=90TT1288>
<title>
May 21, 1990: World Notes:Iraq
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 44
World Notes
IRAQ
Happy Birthday To Me...</hdr>
<body>
<p> When you're fiftysomething, you're entitled to a little
extravagance. But few birthday parties could match the
spectacle staged by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for his 53rd
last month. Saddam invited Cabinet members, prominent
government officials and diplomats to his home village of
Tikrit for lavish festivities that included a two-hour parade
and banners proclaiming YOUR CANDLES, SADDAM, ARE THE TORCHES
FOR ALL THE ARABS.
</p>
<p> At the climax of the parade, the residents of Tikrit wheeled
out a simple cabin, and people dressed in the robes of ancient
Babylon and Assyria prostrated themselves before it. When the
cabin split open to reveal a palm tree from which 53 white
doves were released, Saddam appeared to a wave of applause.
</p>
<p> The President sat and watched the remainder of the show,
including a tableau--Moses redux?--of a baby Saddam rocking
in a cradle in the marshes. Remarked a Western diplomat: "Even
to veteran Saddam watchers, this spectacle reached new
heights."
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</body>
</article>
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