>and military consultancy work for big business and foreign governments.
>
>There have also been books, public appearances and �35,000-a-time
>appearances on the lucrative US lecture circuit.
>"We live very modestly though," wife Brenda insists. "When you have spent
>your life on army pay it becomes a habit."
>Her husband, who has a genius-level IQ and likes to be thought of as an
>intellectual soldier, has not achieved the post-war public stature most
>expected of him.
>
>Schwarzkopf, the personality, has been eclipsed by his quieter and - it
>seemed at the time - more modest boss in the Gulf, General Colin Powell,
>then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
>
>It is Powell who has been thrust into the political foreground; Powell who
>was courted by both major political parties after the Gulf War; Powell who
>was tipped to run for president and asked to stand as vice-presidential
>running mate to George W. Bush.
>
>Even when Schwarzkopf got a �3.5million advance for his best-selling
>autobiography It Doesn't Take a Hero, he was eclipsed by Powell who got
>�4million.
>
>Yet the 17-stone, 6ft 3in grizzly of a man, who earned the nickname The Bear
>and oversaw Operation Desert Storm, proved that his public - if not his
>political - popularity has endured as he finally stepped back into the
>limelight to bring the house down with a tumultuous speech at the Republican
>Party convention.
>
>As he stood on the deck of the US warship New Jersey surrounded by war
>veterans, his image was projected via satellite on to giant TV screens in
>Philadelphia. It was one of those stage-managed moments made for the
>conventions - and for Stormin' Norman's occasional forays into public life
>these days.
>
>His time is spent indulging more in literary than military matters; he reads
>French and German books, listens to Pavarotti and Willie Nelson, loves the
>ballet and opera and proudly keeps up his membership of the International
>Brotherhood of Magicians. It is possible, says more than one political
>analyst, that Schwarzkopf has suffered from positive discrimination. Many
>would have loved General Powell to be the first black vice-president in the
>White House.
>Others believe it is Schwarzkopf's personality - and considerable health
>problems - which have held him back.
>
>Military author C.D.B. Bryan, who knows him well, says: "After a lifetime of
>military constrictions, he wants to go fishing when and where he chooses, to
>walk his dog - freedoms not available to a modern politician."
>
>While the Gulf War may have been the biggest battle of his military career,
>he has also been engaged in a far more personal one: a battle against
>prostate cancer. He has been typically bullish about it.
>
>A Florida lawyer who had just been diagnosed with prostate cancer had a
>chance meeting with Schwarzkopf on a passenger jet and, after take-off,
>tentatively asked for a few tips on how to get through his treatment.
>
>"It was amazing," he recalls. "The first thing he did was put this big face
>up to mine and start poking me in the chest, over and over with each word.
>'Let me tell you,' he said, 'this is no big deal.' Well, I told him my
>father had died of it, and it was a big deal to me.
>
>"He laughed and then told me his entire story, and that 'you have to take it
>head-on.' By the time I got off the plane I was ready to go off and have the
>surgery that very day. That's Schwarzkopf, still inspiring, still leading by
>example."
>(c) Copyright Express Newspapers 2000.
>
>
>TURKEY TO UPGRADE TO AMBASSADORIAL LEVEL IN IRAQ.
>
>Ankara will soon appoint an ambassador to Iraq,according to the "Turkish
>Daily News" of 28 July. He isexpected to be Mehmet Akat, who currently
>serves as ministercounselor in Turkey's London embassy.The Turkish Foreign
>Office has not confirmed thisreport, but it did say that at present more
>than 30 countriesmaintain ambassadorial-level representation in
>Baghdad.Pressure on Turkey to name an ambassador had been buildingafter the
>June visit to Iraq by Foreign MinistryUndersecretary Faruk Logoglu in early
>June.Turkey's primary concern in northern Iraq is thepossibility of the
>establishment of an independent Kurdishstate. A Xinhua commentary of 28 July
>makes the point that itis this concern that has brought Turkey and Iraq
>closertogether. It says: "Turkey, stating on numerous occasionsthat it would
>not allow the founding of an independentKurdish state in the region, has
>called on Baghdad toreinforce its administration over the northern
>Kurdish-populated area." But other factors may be at work as well: Until the
>GulfWar in 1991, Iraq was Turkey's top crude oil provider andthird largest
>trading partner. Since then, Turkey haspurchased most of its crude from
>Saudi Arabia. (DavidNissman) Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with
>the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
>
>(c) 2000 IPR Strategic Business Information Database.
>
>
>JORDAN-IRAQ PIPELINE TO BE REVIVED.
>
>Wa'il Sabri, Jordanian energy minister, announced thathis government will
>resurrect discussions about a Jordanian-Iraqi pipeline because of its
>importance to Jordan's economy,according to Amman's "Al-Arab Al-Yawm" of 27
>July.At the end of last year, Iraq and Jordan signed anagreement on the
>Iraqi supply of oil to Jordan. It was alsodecided to increase the value of
>the trade protocol betweenthe two countries to $300 million, an increase of
>$100million. Meanwhile, Ihsan Abd Al-Razzaq Yunis, chairman of theUnion of
>Iraqi Industries, stated that "Iraq has taken thenecessary steps for its
>exports and imports to pass through"Aqaba," on Jordan's Red Sea, in the next
>few weeks,according to AFP on 1 August. He added that this move willimprove
>trade links with Jordan. The Iraqi president's freeoil grant to Jordan was
>also increased to $300 million, anincrease of $50 million. The grant
>constitutes 50 percent ofthe crude oil and oil byproducts that Jordan
>imports fromIraq. (David Nissman) Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc Reprinted
>with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
>
>(c) 2000 IPR Strategic Business Information Database.
>
>
>: Foreign minister complain to UN about US-British air sorties.
>Text of report by Iraqi news agency INA web site
>
>Baghdad, 6th August: Iraq has called on the United Nations and the UN
>Security Council to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and to put
>an end to the continued US-British military aggression against its
>residential areas and civilian and services installations and to take the
>necessary steps to end the so-called two no-fly zones imposed on it.
>
>In two letters to Kofi Annan and the Security Council president, Foreign
>Minister Muhammad Sa'id al-Sahhaf said: The US and British aircraft have
>continued their combat air sorties against Iraq. This aggression is part of
>the US and British hostility against Iraq. It has been a consistent policy
>since 1992. The objective of this aggression is to undermine Iraq's
>sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and to cause further
>harm to its people, infrastructure and civilian establishments.
>
>The foreign minister reiterated Iraq's categorical rejection of the
>so-called two no-fly zones the United States and Britain have unilaterally
>and illegally imposed on it.
>
>The foreign minister added that the US and British aircraft, which continued
>to violate Iraq's airspace, carried out 220 combat air sorties, including
>106 sorties from Saudi Arabia, 66 sorties from Kuwait and 48 sorties from
>Turkey during the period 24th to 30th July. He said that the logistic
>support offered by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey to the Americans and the
>British makes them major accomplices to the aggression against Iraq, and
>that they should be held responsible before the international community for
>such acts that harm its mujahid and patient people.
>
>
>Iraq slams U.N. sanctions as they enter 11th year.
>By Hassan Hafidh
>BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Iraq vowed to defeat United Nations sanctions
>that entered their 11th year Sunday, despite the suffering they were
>reported by the official media to be causing.
>
>"The economic embargo will be destroyed by Iraqi steadfastness and
>resistance," a front-page editorial in the ruling Baath Party's al-Thawra
>daily said on the 10th anniversary of U.N. Security Council's resolution
>661.
>
>"Our hands and pickaxes will destroy the wall of the embargo and open the
>road to the future ... It is the Iraqi mentality that will create the means
>and methods that will end the blockade."
>
>The main target for attack was the United States, which strongly opposes any
>lifting of the sanctions.
>
>Iraq sees the prolonged embargo as Washington's weapon of last resort to try
>to topple President Saddam Hussein's government after failing to oust him in
>the 1990 Gulf war following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which prompted the
>sanctions.
>
>"The Americans and their allies the Zionists are imposing the unjust embargo
>as part of their continuous aggression against Iraq," the military daily
>al-Qadissiya said.
>
>Washington maintains that Saddam is responsible for the Iraqi people's
>suffering.
>
>Beneath the angry editorials in the official media Sunday were items showing
>how deeply the sanctions are biting.
>
>"A million and a half Iraqis are already dead, mostly children because of
>the economic blockade," wrote the daily Baghdad Observer published in
>English.
>
>"For 10 years, the Security Council has been committing genocide in Iraq
>under flimsy pretexts."
>
>Baghdad has rejected a U.N. resolution that could ease the sanctions if Iraq
>allows the return of international arms inspectors. Inspectors checking on
>weapons of mass destruction have been barred since they left Iraq on the eve
>of a U.S.-British bombing campaign in December 1998.
>
>Iraqi media and officials say that a U.N. oil-for-food deal allowing Baghdad
>to pay for essentials through crude exports has done little to alleviate the
>people's suffering.
>
>"The oil-for-food programme only meets a small proportion of our needs even
>when the deal is implemented to the full," Thawra said.
>Baghdad accused representatives of the United States and Britain at the
>sanctions committee of blocking Iraqi purchases under the oil pact.
>
>The head of the programme, Benon Sevan, is currently visiting Iraq and is
>holding talks with officials in Baghdad and in areas in the north currently
>under Kurdish control.
>(C) Reuters Limited 2000.
>
>
>U.S. activists fast in protest at Iraq sanctions.
>BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Four members of a U.S. pressure group began a
>three-day fast in front of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad on Sunday to protest
>against sanctions on Iraq.
>
>"We (have) come to the United Nations to fast and in vigil to mark the 10th
>anniversary of the imposition of sanctions on Iraq," Lisa Gizzi, a member of
>Chicago-based Voices in the Wilderness, told Reuters Television.
>
>She was sitting in a tent set up in front of Baghdad's al-Canal Hotel, which
>houses six U.N. offices. The group plans to remain there during the fast,
>which will end on Tuesday night.
>
>"We have chosen the United Nations because it is the body that has imposed
>sanctions on Iraq and we recognise that it is the United States that works
>through the United Nations and it is the main opponent of sanctions," Lisa
>said.
>
>She said the group had travelled from al-Jumhoriya, a poor district of the
>city of Basra, where they had experienced first hand the effect the
>sanctions had on ordinary Iraqis.
>
>"We feel that the sanctions are weapons of mass destruction," she said.
>
>Basra was heavily bombed during the Gulf War and has been a target for air
>strikes by Western planes enforcing a no-fly zone. The U.S. activists
>arrived in the city in mid-July, planning to spend two months there.
>
>Tough sanctions were imposed on Iraq 10 years ago in response to its
>invasion and occupation of Kuwait in 1990.
>The United Nations estimates close to one million civilians, over half of
>them children below the age of five, have died over the past decade as a
>result of the sanctions.
>(C) Reuters Limited 2000.
>
>
>U.N. arms chief rules out 100 pct success in Iraq.
>LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The United Nations chief arms inspector for Iraq
>Hans Blix said on Sunday his monitoring agency could never find out
>everything about Iraq's banned weapons programmes.
>
>Blix, whose U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
>(UNMOVIC) is currently barred from operating by Baghdad, said no inspection
>was totally foolproof.
>
>"It is generally recognised that no inspection, however intrusive, however
>effective, can ever come up with a 100 percent answer or mapping of the
>capacity that Iraq has," Blix told BBC radio.
>
>"I think the (U.N. Security) council has come to accept that," he said.
>UNMOVIC replaced the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) whose inspectors
>pulled out of Iraq in 1998 on the eve of a U.S.-British bombing campaign.
>
>Iraq has repeatedly said it would not allow Blix's team to work before
>international sanctions, imposed exactly 10 years ago, are lifted. The
>United Nations says Iraq must first cooperate with Blix before the sanctions
>are eased.
>
>Blix, a Swede and former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
>said Iraq might still change its mind and let his inspectors in to do their
>work. The new U.N. arms agency started training 44 weapons inspectors from
>19 countries earlier this month.
>
>"They may find that there is no other way of eliminating or suspending the
>economic restrictions to which they are subjected," he said.
>
>Blix promised UNMOVIC would be a "proper, appropriate U.N. organ". Iraq said
>its predecessor UNSCOM was dominated by the United States and Britain and
>was helping drag out the sanctions as long as possible.
>
>"(UNMOVIC) will have a broad geographic distribution and we are to be very
>correct, not cosy with the Iraqis, but correct in our dealings with them,"
>he said.
>(C) Reuters Limited 2000.
>
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