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everyone will go along with it. If someone
doesn't, they will be ridiculed by
~e others. Saddam is giving them this
because he is weak. Everyone is
against him. If he solves the Kurd prob- .
lem, he can turn his energies against .
.the Communists, the ShIItes and rival
factions within the Baath Party. ,Saddam
is giving the Kurds an Injection to
put them to sleep. When they wake up,
he will be too strong to do anything
,about it."
Another Day of Misery
In this camp Itself,. it was another
day of misery. Much of the lower slopes
have been cleared as tens of thousands
~f refugees have been moved to newer
camps by the Turkish authorities, leav.
I!'g the slopes covered with the debris
Dfw~at, some of the American soldiers
working here have been calling "Kurdstock."
But at the top, where Special Forces ,
;roops have strung razor wire to prelent
the helicopters from being
mobbed, life continued in unabated awiulness.
.
Dr. Hans Boon, a relief official, was
explaining his difficulties in keepinf,
alive the infants suffering from chronic
diarrhea and dehydratlon- on many
days, 20 die here - when a relief
;worker ran up saying, "I think the child
hasdled."
Grlm.faced, he strode Into the back
of a tent, where nine weeping' mothers
sat next to nine tiny figures connected
to Intravenous drip bottles suspended
,around the walls of the tent. In the corner,
one of the women huddled over a
motionless bundle. Then she picked i~
UP, holding It close, and walked slowly
out of the tent.' ,
Graveyard of Tiny Tombs
At the same moment, a gray-bearded
'man walked past the hospital com-
"pound c~rrying another small body:
.wrapped In a blanket and took it to the
~rowing graveyard of tiny tombs
;t~pped with rocks, crowded higgledy"
:plggledy together, too close and disar.
.dered to count. Bent, turbaned men
!w~re ~cratching out three new graves
with picks and worn shovels. ' ,
.'"There ,!s another there, and back
:.there, too, a man named Hassan said:
painting to a cemetery In the ridgeliné
~cross the gorge and another up a'
lnearby hill.' ,
Would he go back to Zakho he was
:asked. • ' ,
, "No, ..no,no," he said, waggling his'
,finger In Middle Eastern emphasis.
,~'Whenevery Iracji goes outside Zakho,'
.we go. We must gosomewhere. But
'where?" " , '
KurdishAccord.: Will Iraq Honor It?
By ELAINE SCIOLINO ,
Over' the Y"lars, president Saddarn:
Hussein of Iraq had made and broken
,an autonomy pact with the Kurds, bru-,
:tally, suppressed their rebellions, arrested
and executed their guerrilla
leaders, razed their villages, forced
them from their lands and
relocated them to sterile
News new towns that often
Analysis lacked water supplies and
electricity.
So when the Kurdish,
'leader Jalal Talabani was awakened at'
.his home in Damascus on Aug. 2 with
,news that President Hussein had in-,
~aded Kuwait, he was excited. "I was
:very glad when I heard about the inva-,
'sion," Mr. Talabani recalled several
weeks.later. "I said to myself, 'This has,
::beenSaddam's biggest mista,ke, and it'
willlead him to his grave.''' ' '. '
Mr. Talabani's hatred for the Iraqi
President was not one-sided. Mf. Hussein
so detested Mr. Talabani, who has
:spent the last eight years in exile, that
he referred to him as a renegade and
vowed to cut ll.!mto pieces with a sword,
,before he wouldlét. him come home.
:,.So when thé' two men appeared on
iraqi television on Wednesday in a
':warm embrace as a tentative accord
'qn Kurdish autonomy was ,announced,
':the response of many Kurds ranged
:from puzzlement to disgust.
'Saddam Is Such a Devil'
"I myself didn't like tosee them em-
,brace each other," said Dr. Mahmoud
9th man, a longtime Kurdish leader
.Who headed the Kurdish delegation
,that negotiated an autonomy agree-
'ment with Mr. Hussein in 1970. "Sad-
'dam Is such a devil. One could have
shaken his hand, nothing more. But the
embrace gives the Impression of a finished
agreement, which is not the
case."
, It was reminiscent, they said, of the,
embrace between Mr. Hussein and
Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi in Ai-,
,giers in 1975, when the two men signed
an accord In which the Shah promised:
to end his support for Iraqi Kurdish
rebels and the two sides agreed to di-.
,vide.the Sh~tt ai-Arab waterwai; five
,years latér;ll:ft~"the IslarTilê'i'evölu-
',tlon that overthrew ,the Shah, Mr. Hus.
~seintore up the accord on Iraqi televi~.
uSlon and invaded Iran to regain full
l'control over the waterway. ' :
~.,:Other Kurds compared Wednesday's,
\cmbrace to the 21-gun saluté and the
'double embrace that Mr. Hussein gave
thé Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Jaber al-
Ahmed al-Sabah, when he visited Baghdad.!n
the fall of 1~89tQ,J'eceiy_e, If.aq's
highesf:'rriëdàf ôf honor. Lëssthan a
year later, Iraq invaded and occupied
Kuwait.
"We don't trust Saddam Hussein"
said Dr. Najmaldin Karim, a Washing.
,ton neurosurgeon and spokesman for
the Kurdish National Congress, which
"is based in the United States. "Nobody
'will go home if this is just a deal be-
,tween Saddam and the Kurdish leader-
,ship t'hat doesn't have strong interna.
A boy trying to hold onto his relief package as he was pinned by others
who rushed to get to supplies delivered by a United Nations truck.
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