Word: baghdad
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...again as Iraq and Iran resumed the bombing of each other's capitals after a respite of several weeks. Iraq opened the latest round with air attacks against Tehran, Iran's capital, and a dozen other cities. Iran in turn fired a surface-to-surface missile at Baghdad, reportedly destroying part of a soccer stadium, and launched air strikes against nine other Iraqi targets. Iran apparently was also responsible for a rocket strike on a West German freighter in the gulf...
...lord, Schahriah, by telling him stories every evening for 1,001 nights. She spun out tales of Aladdin and his magic lamp, of Sinbad's sailing on the seven seas, of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. To titillate his fancy, she also spoke of three girls from Baghdad who danced & naked with a porter. Of a lady who beseeched two men to "pierce me with your rapiers." Of a woman's passion for a monkey, and a bear...
...latest cease-fire lasted only a few hours. Shortly after Iran announced last week that it was suspending attacks on Iraqi cities and called upon the Baghdad government to reciprocate, Iraqi warplanes attacked two tankers hauling oil from Iran's Kharg Island and launched raids on Tehran and nine other Iranian cities, killing more than 300 and wounding dozens. In retaliation, Iran fired what appeared to be another surface-to-surface missile into the heart of Baghdad; more than 70 people were reported to have died in the blast...
Iraq, which first used gas against Iranian troops last year, denied the new accusations. Although U.S. intelligence sources were convinced that Baghdad was guilty, they found it difficult to pin down where the wounded Iranians being treated in Western Europe had been exposed to gas. Iranian troops driving deep into the Huwaiza marshes in western Iraq two weeks ago were equipped with gas masks; Western observers of the aftermath of the struggle reported that none of the dead were wearing the masks. Nor did they show signs of having been exposed to toxic agents. While denying that chemical weapons were...
While the three Arab leaders met in Baghdad, Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher Masri was in Washington urging Shultz to embrace the new Arab initiative. He got little more than vague promises of "support and cooperation" from Shultz, who indicated he might meet with Masri and Egypt's foreign minister sometime in the next two months. Warned Masri: "This may be the last chance. The future will only be good for the fanatics and the extremists...