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Off the Record
Born in thatched hut
PYONGYANG : He was born in a thatched hut and now Ilves In a marble palace, worshipped by his people as the "Great Leader", reports Reuter.
That much Is known about North Korean President Kim Il-Sung. among the very last of the world's hardline communist leaders whose personality cult has been taken to heights unknown since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin or China's Mao Tse-tung.
As for the rest, take your pick from propaganda, what the prying eyes of resident diplomats in Pyongyang can see, and pure speculation about the country's President since 1948.
Don't bother to ask North Koreans about Kim's personal life.
"It's impolite to ask such questions," said one official, like every Korean adult wearing a Ktm Il-Sung lapel badge. In North Korea we don't talk about the individual".
Don't imagine he will end up like his former ally Nicolae Ceaucescu of Romania, a crumpled body In front of a firing squad.
There is no dissent here," one diplomat said, "Some people believe In God. and some believe In Kim Il-Sung."
The elder Ktm lives opulently Just minutes by car from the centre of Pyongyang In a palace circled by a moat and reached by a sweeping driveway decorated with playing fountains.
Pheasants and red-crested cranes wander freely over expanses of manicured lawns.
Miracles from S. Arabia
WASHINGTON : The ban on alcohol in Saudi Arabia cut down on U.S. military discipline problems, accidental deaths and absenteeism during the Gulf war, a Defence Department spokesman said, reports Reuter.
He said returning U.S. officers agreed with British GuV war Commander General Sir Peter de La Billiere, who told a par liamentary committee In London the alcohol ban had been an unexpected boon for discipline among British troops.
Tve heard the same thing for U.S. forces. "Major Doug Hart said In response to De La Billiere'* comments". They said a lot of problems associated with alcohol consumption didn't take place —- fighting among troops and absenteeism."
Hart also said accidental deaths among U.S soldiers from car crashes were remarkably low because of the alcohol ban.
Many returning troops said the prohibition on alcohol had helped them lose weight during the Gulf war and got them Into better physical condition.
Sakharov now a darling of Kremlin
MOSCOW : Soviet political leader* and foreign dignitaries Tuesday hailed late dissident leader Andrei Sakharov, long reviled by the Kremlin as a traitor, as one of the great figures of the 2Oth century, reports Reuter.
In a public ceremony on Moscow's busy Ring Road marking the 70th anniversary of the Nobel laureate s birth, deputy mayor Sergei Stankievich unveiled a memorial plaque on the wall of the house where Sakharov lived and died.
"Sakharov was one of the great figures of the 20th cen tury." said Stankievich.
Tie saved our honour.' declared the Izvestia newspaper tn a front-page headline. The Communist Party daily Pravda, which In the past regularly printed bUUr denunciation* for the Physicist. said he helped prepare for a new Soviet Union
Prize-winning writer Oles Adamovich compared Sakharov with fellow Physicist and Mathematician Albert Einstein. also a nobcl peace prize winner
The totalitarianism of Nazi Germany could not destroy Einstein, and our Soviet totalitarianism did not break Sakharov.' declared Adamovich to applause from several hun dred Muscovite* who gathered for the ceremony