Kiren Chaudhry, assistant professor at U.C. Berkeley, discusses her visit to Baghdad as a member of a peace delegation from the Global Exchange and Middle Eastern Children's Alliance, undertaken in December 1990-January 1991. She discusses changes in the Iraqi economy, suffering by the populace, and the flourishing black market. She separates the realities of the Iraqi people from the position of Saddam Hussein, and how the U.S. media is ignoring the international peace movement. She concludes with hope for the diplomatic measures to avert war.|PEACE DELEGATION TO THE MIDDLE EAST / Kiren Chaudhry| interviewed by David Bernstein. Chaudhry, assistant progessor at U.C. Berkeley, discusses her visit to Bagdad as a member of a peace delegation from the Global Exchange and Middle Eastern Children's Alliance, undertaken in December 1990-January 1991. She discusses changes in the Iraqi economy, suffering by the populace, and the flourishing black market. She separates the realities of the Iraqi people from the position of Saddam Hussain, and how the U.S. media is ignoring the international peace movement. She concludes with hope for the diplomatic measures to avert the war. BROADCAST: KPFA, 9 Jan. 1991.
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