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Man of the Year: A section of the BBC World Service, funded by Britain’s Foreign Office, has voted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein “Man of the Year” for 1990, a BBC spokeswoman said Sunday. The Hausa Service, which broadcasts to a mainly Moslem audience of 8 million a week in Nigeria and surrounding countries, announced last Tuesday that Saddam had won the annual write-in election. A spokesman for the Foreign Office, which funds the World Service’s 30 language sections, declined to comment on the award, saying that the British Broadcasting Corp. was editorially independent.