European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday november 26,1990 Flora Lewis Saddam s foes in Iraq hold key to peace met reluctance from Rome a the Bush administration has met reluctance from its partners in the persian Gulf crisis for the new United nations Resolution it wants explicitly authorizing the use of Force against Iraq. It Isnit Clear whether president Bush has decided there will have to be a War or believes a Resolution plus massive american reinforcements will finally persuade Saddam Hussein to turn Tail. In any a is the soviets the germans and others have made Clear they done to think the search for a political solution has been exhausted. There is talk of  its probably based on a misapprehension. The Assumption is that if Saddam can really be convinced his country faces destruction he will pull out of Kuwait and accept the penalties of his aggression. Nobody can be sure but it Isnit Likely. That might be the response of a Patriot who places his people s welfare above his own will. But Saddam has never Given a sign of being that kind of Man. He is known to have Felt isolated and endangered in his own country for years relying on his Small clan from Cikrit and a few Welt rewarded dependents to protect him. Cyl the International leaders talk As though he were the Only iraqi the Only one they must persuade to pull Back. It is More probable he is convinced that if he does no to come out of the crisis looking a Winner he Wilt be destroyed. He is not suicidal but he has never flinched at other people s deaths. There is no sign he cares about anyone else or his country if he has to go. So the dialogue which has to be indirect because of his murderous reflexes must be with other iraqis with people whose Choice is to bring him Down or to fall with him. It is Only his own unrelenting propaganda that presents him As a hero Adu lated in Iraq. There is a vast opposition muted because the country has so Long been terrorized. But it is doubtless True that they Are paralysed and Only people who have benefited so far from his Rule have a Chance to topple him. The embargo the massive military Force and political determination arrayed against him the threat of War must be Martin Gottlieb world Fri making Many of them wonder about those benefits. The Way the Campaign against Iraq has been conducted however they have Little reason to think they and the country might escape Saddam a Fate. But even other arabs and the . Commanding general fear what would happen in the Region if Iraq is destroyed. Turkey Syria and Iran might try to carve it up. Some but not the democratic leaders of the kurd might seek Independence rather than autonomy. It is a fragile country in a volatile part of the world. The time has come to offer an alternative to provide a glimpse of a Post Saddam Iraq. The first thing should be a Security Council Resolution assuring the a m amp my bit a Abms 4 a a i a m m a a Ala a c he country a territorial integrity the Borders before the invasion of Kuwait except for the recently agreed Border with Iran. This could be combined with the Resolution threatening Force if no settlement is reached. Diplomats Are beginning to talk of the idea. It would also help hold the anti Saddam coalition together. The question of wiping out iraqis Arsenal should be left open. Not in a formal Resolution but through Public statements the army should be made aware that it can survive As an institution though renouncing chemical biological and atomic weapons. Armaments in the area have reached an outlandish level. Later there should be International talks on reducing them with a goal of balance borrowing from the new european diplomacy the concept of defensive sufficiency making Clear that Iraq in its turn would not be left to the mercy of its neighbors under existing or future regimes. But the longer term needs will be Complex and More upheavals have to be expected. The Point now is to find the Way to undo iraqis aggression and threat of renewing it without a catastrophic War. There is nothing to lose. Of course Saddam wont like the use of some . Carrots to break his grip on the regime though he has tried every Way he can think of to break the coalition against him with selective release of hostages cheap Oil promises. If the alternative is War it is certainly Worth trying to persuade iraqis that they can save themselves by overturning the Man who holds them All hostage. Maybe even Saddam himself would choose instant conversion to love for his country and for peace. Done to bet on it but done to be blinded by his displays. He Isnit immovable. C Newyork times overweight people May be fighting genes t1s the season when a Middle aged Many a thoughts turn to the subject of excess body weight. Thanksgiving was not the Only reason. There is also Delta Burke. She is the actress who plays the overweight sex Beauty Queen on a designing women Quot the television sitcom whose off camera problems have recently been discussed first in the tabloids then on the Barbara Walters program. One of the problems on the sitcoms set is that Burke was not hired to play an overweight sex Beauty Queen but a Beautiful sex Beauty Queen. Shortly into the series the actress started gaining weight. Strangely the writers did no to catch up with this development for some time. They were still writing jokes premised on the notion that Burke was the Beauty in the cast Well after events had rendered others More attractive at least in the conventional sense. The jokes feh Flat of course and Burke was in trouble. The other part of the a designing women Quot problem has to do with personal relations. Burkes co workers and Bosses have been saying she is impossible. She went on the Walters show to rebut them. One need not be a psychiatrist to suspect a connection Between the weight problem and the human relations problem. For a woman who has built her career on her conventional Beauty to gain Many pounds on television a As the whole world watches a must be the equivalent in humiliation of the Nightmare Many people Nave about being naked in a Public place. One is just too exposed a at the wrong time. And such humiliation could reasonably be expected to make one testy. The very fact that one is losing ones Youthful allure is painful enough. Compounding the pain surely is the feeling that people think the problem is your fault that you must be eating like a pig. Most people surely understand that if a person is fat in childhood its probably not the kids fault it has something to do with heredity. But if a person is not fat As a kid but gets fat people might reasonably suspect that the problem is not heredity but behaviour. But they might be wrong. Why is it hard to believe that Middle aged weight Gam is As hereditary As Middle aged baldness Why can to the timing o a weight problem in As much programmed into genes As the existence of the profit says Here a on the basis of absolutely no medical or scientific input whatsoever just observation a that if both your parents were trim As kids and became fat later you can expect a serious weight problem in Middle age whether you have one in youth or not. Obviously weight gain does have something to do with behaviour but behaviour can be hereditary too. Twins who Are separated at birth turn out to have behavioural traits in common. Delta Burke told Barbara Walters that she thinks her weight gain resulted in part from stresses on the set. That May be True and not Only because some people with a weight problem eat to Deal with stress. If the notion presented Here is Correct and applicable then burkes fight against weight is a fight against nature. Fighting nature and ones colleagues at the same time can be Tough. But the larger sadder truth is that a lot of people who Are like Delta Burke probably blame themselves for their problem just As society blames them. And the self contempt can affect relations with others and can become a bigger problem than tie Weig it u the truth is the self contempt is not justified unless hating genes makes sense. Cox news service the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states government