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Eagleton,
William
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Notes
on Ambassador Bill & Kay Eagleton
RugNotes:
Kurdish Carpet and Kelim by William
Eagleton
 Shaking
Hands with Saddam Hussein
Eagleton: I never had a one-on-one
meeting with Saddam, but I was present
during several official events and
visits, including that of [then Reagan
administration Middle East envoy and now
secretary of defense Donald] Rumsfeld.[3]
Of course, Saddam was visible every day
on television. During the Iraq-Iran war,
Saddam looked for support wherever
available, and to get it, he could lay on
the charm. He was physically imposing
and, as the personality cult caught on
and intensified, Saddam became an almost
godlike figure. Some of his admirers in
the diplomatic community claimed that he
was really a modest man who did not
welcome the statues and huge portraits.
But, if that were the case, he could have
put an end to them with a single command.
I recall one friend of ours, a painter of
Kurdish and Yezidi[4] folkloric scenes,
who was driven to a mental breakdown by
an assignment to paint gigantic portraits
of Saddam Hussein. William
Eagleton: \The Foreign Service Has
Changed Much\ - Middle East Quarterly -
Fall 2005
Ambassador William
Eagleton ranks among Paul Bremer¹s
advisers who have the broadest knowledge
of the Middle East and of the Kurds. When
Hama Haji Mahmud, leader of the Kurdish
Socialist Democrat Party, a small Kurdish
party based in the Suleimania region,
complained that the Americans did not
want to reunify Kurdistan by
incorporating the regions annexed by the
Baath, Ambassador Eagleton quipped: ³We
will see when the governments of Erbil
and Suleimania are reunified. It is an
easy way to throw the ball back in the
Kurds court. But it confirms the
suspicions of those, like Chowkat Cheikh
Yezdin, Minister of State in Erbil, who
³fear the Americans will once again let
down the Kurds, as in the 1970s, and that
there is something ominous behind their
strategy. Kurdistan
Observer
Eagleton, William. The
Kurdish Republic of 1946,
New York City: November
22, 1994
Received word from Eagleton--the Vienna
warehouse where he'd stored all his
papers has burned down. Everything has
been lost except the pictures he sent us
a few months ago. He writes, "I wish
to know that they are safe, since they
are the only things that remain of my
adventures in Kurdistan." Kurdistan
- May 1989, Page 41a
Book Review
An Introduction to Kurdish Rugs and
Other Weavings
By William Eagleton, Interlink Books,
New York, 144 pp. $49,95
Reviewed by Kurt
Mendenhall
"The American ambassador wants
Kurdish rugs," said a Damascene
carpet merchant in Suq al-Hamidiya when
asked why the price of a particularly
interesting item had mysteriously
increased. It seemed he was one of the
last to catch on to the fact that Kurdish
textiles were suddenly in unusual demand,
by an individual prepared to pay well for
them.
- QUESTION: I have a couple on this,
Richard. One, who was the last person of
Burns' rank or, you know, of that senior
level, do you know who it was, to meet
with Qadhafi?
MR. BOUCHER: The last meeting that
I'm aware of is our -- was he ambassador
at the time or chargé? Chargé Bill
Eagleton in 1980 when he closed up the
embassy, he met with Qadhafi.
Eiland, Emmett
Emami, Manouchehr.
Enjelas Rugs
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