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Had Howard or DeSouza been in a movie officially sanctioned by the hip media--a contradiction in terms if ever there was one, they'd have three picture deals with Miramax.
Speculation: 1) through the covert shipment of oil to Iran; 2) from the approximately $300-million worth of oil the United Nations lets him sell to Jordan each year; 3) by skimming funds from the sanctioned sale of $2 billion in oil that is supposed to buy food for his people; 4) from a secret Swiss bank account; 5) by playing the oil futures market, which he manipulates by creating the impression that the United Nations is about to lift the sanctions in reward for his changed conduct.
Free speech and free elections were not the only innovations: gambling was legalized and nude bathing was sanctioned.
A divinely sanctioned solipsism?
The United States also helped Suharto to seize power back in 1965-66, sanctioned his occupation of East Timor in 1975, and basically looked the other way at three decades of one-man rule and serious human rights violations.