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...famed "Lahore the Golden," capital of the Punjab, ancient seat of the Mogul Sultan "Akbar the Magnificent," there stood on a muddy sidewalk last week, with a grin of amazement and recognition on his round red face, His Majesty's Mr. Constable Sean O'Rourke...
...Hussein: Iran's major oil outlet at Kharg island in the Persian Gulf. The very idea provoked a quick Iranian counterthreat. If France or any other nation intervened in the war by supplying such weapons, or if Iraq seriously damaged the facilities at Kharg island, Majlis Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned, "Iran will destroy the security of the gulf and prevent a "single ship from entering or leaving." That in turn prompted State Department Spokesman John Hughes to declare that the U.S. was "committed" to maintaining the freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf. With exquisite diplomatic equivocation...
...massacre are also costing Israel dearly in its relationship with Egypt. Last week Cairo's prestigious newspaper al Ahram called for an international tribunal "on the lines of Nuremberg" to investigate the massacre, while the mass-circulation al Akbar declared that the incident had demonstrated that Israel is "militarist, fascist and terrorist." Along the same line, Egypt's Defense Minister, Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, called on Arab countries to develop a "joint strategy" in order to offset Israel's increasing military superiority. It was quite a departure from the spirit of Camp David...
...Arab allies, repatriation to Iraq of about 100,000 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim refugees of Iranian descent, and withdrawal of Iraqi forces from every square foot of Iranian territory. Iran has demanded as much as $150 billion in war reparations from Iraq, although Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani pointedly noted that Iran would abandon its claim to reparations if Iraq were converted into an Iranian-style Islamic republic...
...against Iran. Last week Khomeini said publicly: "I warn the governments of the region to deal with us according to the tenets of Islam. Otherwise, if their behavior should require the enforcement of Koranic injunctions, we shall enforce God's command." Added Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: "We shall stop at nothing in order to gain our legitimate rights, and the fall of Saddam Hussein is our greatest right." In a particularly revealing gesture, 116 Majlis members sent a congratulatory message to Khomeini, noting that it was time to push for the establishment of an Islamic republic...