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Some of that excitement comes with the territory. Angelo now deploys seven correspondents and a multitude of stringers up and down an area that extends from the northern suburbs of Washington to the Canadian border...
...seesaw war has increasingly swung in Iran's favor. In February, Tehran staged its most sophisticated assault of the long and bloody conflict. Named Val Fajr (I Swear by the Dawn), the attack seized the Iraqi oil port of Fao. Iraq recovered briefly by capturing the Iranian border town of Mehran in May, only to lose it again in June. Though it enjoys an enormous advantage in equipment, its reliance on rigid defensive tactics makes its soldiers vulnerable to the night attacks and lightning raids of its enemy. "Remember," says a senior U.S. official, "the Iranians are chess players...
...Washington, there were plenty of reminders in Mexico last week of the country's continuing problems. Just before the Presidents met, the price of gasoline went up, unannounced and overnight, by an average of 36%. The following day Mexican authorities seized almost half a ton of cocaine at the border, their third biggest haul in the country's history. A couple of days later the former chief of the federal judicial police in Guadalajara, Armando Pavon Reyes, was sentenced to four years in prison for having accepted $100,000 in bribes from Rafael Caro Quintero, an arrested drug trafficker...
...increased pace of drug smuggling across the border has intensified strains that have existed ever since the U.S. took over half of Mexico's territory in 1848. These days Mexico is producing roughly a third of all the heroin and marijuana consumed in the U.S. It has become a transshipment point for 30% of the cocaine flown into the U.S. from Colombia and further south. Unless De la Madrid acts soon, Washington fears, official corruption, already widespread, will become even more deeply rooted. "How long does it take for drug dealers to penetrate the government?" asks Assistant Secretary of State...
During the stalemated six-year war along their 730-mile border, Iran and Iraq have resorted to attacking tankers plying the waters of the Persian Gulf. Last week Iraqi pilots scored a strategic breakthrough when they struck Sirri Island, a key Iranian oil terminal that was thought to be beyond the reach of Iraq's fighter-bombers...