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A new, but actually old, member of a broader axis of totalitarian evil has reemerged from the shadows. Post-Milosevic Yugoslavia has been caught shipping military equipment to Iraq in violation of international sanctions against Saddam Hussein. For some of us, the arrangement between Belgrade and Baghdad is old news. But it has its shocking aspect: this alliance between two forms of fascism was partly set up by a Communist remnant, the Yugoslav United Left (JUL), headed by Mira Markovic, Milosevic's wife. JUL has a representative, Borisa Vukovic, working in Baghdad as an adviser to Saddam's oldest son, Odai. However, the...

The Rich Are In Control Now The $10,000 grill is back in. Actually, it never went out. In the economic shock wave that struck after the terrorists did, sales of $400 to $800 barbecue grills - trade-up types popular with the middle class - dropped. Super grills equipped with built-in smoker boxes, cocktail carts, plate warmers, digital temperature probes - all meant for your custom "outdoor room" (with refrigerator, wet bar, pizza oven) - never slumped. "High-end sales held up," said Donna H. Myers, spokeswoman for the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association. Also back is the $11,750 case of wine,...

Citizen Clinton Up Close By Jonathan Alter NEWSWEEK April 8 issue — Living well is at least some revenge. Tuesday he had lunch alone with Willie Mays at the Harlem office. Wednesday it was Robin Williams and Billy Crystal at a midtown restaurant, interrupted by a polite greeting from another diner, George Stephanopoulos, the first time the two had seen each other since the former White House aide savaged his old boss in a book. By Easter he was off to Oscar de la Renta’s spread in the Dominican Republic for vacation with Hillary, Chelsea and Ian Klaus, Chelsea’s Rhodes-scholar...