To No One's Surprise, Hussein...

To No One's Surprise, Hussein Sweeps Back Into Power in Vote: "If there is a reliable hard core to the support for Saddam Hussein among ordinary Iraqis, it is here on the baking flatlands of north-central Iraq, where the Iraqi leader was born. So it was no surprise today that officials of the Ministry of Information provided a fleet of buses to bring foreign reporters 110 miles from Baghdad to watch Tikritis voting in a referendum on Mr. Hussein's presidency. Under Iraq's Constitution, the referendum serves as an election, but it has only one candidate - Mr. Hussein."

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Posted: October 16, 2002