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Our department suffered mainly at the higher level, the post graduate studies, because we have no periodical for\u003cbr/\u003einstance for the past ten years and periodicals are the backbone of any post graduate research. New books, we have had no books for references for the past ten years\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Professor Doctor Abdullatif AL-Juumaily, Head of English, Baghdad University\u003cbr/\u003eThe U-N's oil for food programme has not addressed these issues.\u003cbr/\u003eIraq bitterly denounces the terms, which give the United Nations full supervision over Iraq's spending. \u003cbr/\u003eNearly 30 percent of Iraq's oil revenue must pay for war reparations and U-N costs.\u003cbr/\u003eThe U-N of course lay the blame at Saddam's door and imply that he could do more to help his own people.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Oil for food programme has had a positive impact on the Iraqi people but we believe much more can be done and it could have even better impact if the issue of the cash component could be suitably resolved so that cash resources are made available. If contracts on hold could be expedited especially in water, sanitation and education and if at least from phase 8 onwards the contracts for essential medicines and supplies and vaccines and other things that are required, there could be an expeditation in the process of contracting itself by the government.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Anupama Rao Singh, UNICEF representative in Baghdad\u003cbr/\u003eIraq's economy bottomed out five years ago, forcing Saddam to grudgingly accept the oil-for-food program. \u003cbr/\u003eNow that sanctions have been relaxed slightly Iraq is pumping 3 (m) million barrels of oil a day, a figure close to its prewar output.\u003cbr/\u003eBut for ordinary Iraqis the hardship continues, a ration card system ensures every citizen gets the basics - flour,\u003cbr/\u003erice, beans, milk and cooking oil.\u003cbr/\u003eBut for an increasing number the only option left is to start selling their possessions.\u003cbr/\u003eAt this auction room in Baghdad business is brisk, as more and more people watch their belongings go under the hammer.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Arabic)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The country has been 10 years under sanctions which are imposed by the united state, Britain and other European countries. People were obliged to sell their belongings because of the bad economical situation and the hardships of life\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Wael Mohammad, merchant\u003cbr/\u003eHere at the Saddam Hussein Hospital in Baghdad the most controversial issue surrounding sanctions is clear to see.\u003cbr/\u003eThe leukemia ward has more than a dozen children receiving chemotherapy, a treatment more widely available than before, but still scarce.\u003cbr/\u003eTen children die at the hospital in a typical week, many from leukemia.\u003cbr/\u003eThe sanctions have never blocked Iraq from importing medicine.\u003cbr/\u003eEven so, Iraq's health care system rapidly deteriorated from 1991 to 1996, when the government refused the oil-for-food program that could have raised billions of dollars. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Iraqis say they still don't have enough medicine and complain that U-N bureaucracy slows deliveries.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Arabic)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The percentage of death rates have increased compared with the rates before the war. Children's death rates reached millions.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mohammad Firas, paediatrician\u003cbr/\u003eUnited Nations weapons inspectors left Iraq more than two years ago, their mission incomplete. \u003cbr/\u003eIraq says it won't allow inspectors back until the sanctions are lifted. \u003cbr/\u003eU-N Secretary General Kofi Annan is to hold talks with the Iraqis next month.\u003cbr/\u003eBaghdad, Iraq - 12 January 2001\u003cbr/\u003e1. Al-Mansour square with President Saddam Hussein statue\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up on Saddam statue\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot of students passing in front of Saddam's portrait at Baghdad University\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of students in class\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Doctor Abdullatif AL-Juumaily, Head of English, Baghdad University\u003cbr/\u003e6. U-N food programme car entering the U-N compound\u003cbr/\u003e7. United Nation sign\u003cbr/\u003e8. Set up shot of the UNICEF representative in Baghdad Anupama Rao Singh\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anupama Rao Singh, UNICEF representative in Baghdad \u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of Al-dawra oil refinery\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of the vegetable market\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various people queuing to receive their monthly ration\u003cbr/\u003e13. People bringing statue into auction room\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various close ups of antiques\u003cbr/\u003e15. People at the auction listening\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Wael Mohammad, Merchant\u003cbr/\u003e17. Exterior shot of Saddam's hospital\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various of sick children on beds\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mohammad Firas, Paediatrician\u003cbr/\u003e20. 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