| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and digest bulletins relating to the effect of UN sanctions on the Iraqi economy and living conditions, including more general material on the war's consequences for social issues and several pages of handwritten notes by Crusoe. Items include reports of food rationing, estimates of a loss of 5,216 billion Iraqi dinars through the UN sanctions (Baghdad Observer, 19 August 1991) as well as later revised figures of $200 billion, discussions of tariffs and inflation, the influx of new contractors seeking to profit from reconstruction work (Times, 7 May 1991), Reuters reports on discussion of war reparation payments with Crusoe's annotated calculations on the side, an article from the International Herald Tribune (4 June 1991) surveying the extent of the damage to Iraq's infrastructure and the possible repair bill, a UN Envoy's report on Iraq's humanitarian needs, an article by Patrick Cockburn (Esquire, November 1991) on 'Who's Afraid of Saddam Hussein?' on how public anger at their leader due to postwar living conditions was balanced by continuing fear of his regime, and another article by Cockburn (Independent, 9 March 1991) on life in postwar Baghdad. articles from the Baghdad Observer on Iraqi Jews, cleaning up in Baghdad and changes in living habits caused by the sanctions (July-August 1991), reports of rising crime in postwar Iraq, details of price increases, an article from the Economist (8 September 1990) on 'Hunger and the Butcher's Bill' and another from Business International (27 August 1990), 'The Vise Tightens on Iraq' both discussing the effects of sanctions, and a Policy Focus Research Memorandum (October 1990) on 'Iraq's Economic and Military Vulnerabilities', issued by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. |