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Jerusalem was also hostile to U.N. efforts. Israeli troops simply turned back a convoy of U.N. observers who had arrived at the outskirts of Beirut in an effort to carry out a Security Council resolution instructing them to take up positions in the Lebanese capital...
...front in a small military convoy of Land Rovers. The mist rising from the Shatt al Arab waterway is steamy, the sky so luminous that it seems ready to burst into flame. There was shelling during the night from the Iranian artillery five miles away, but people seem unperturbed as they open their shops, till their fields and move cargoes along the waterway in long, canoe-shaped dhows...
...hours with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was the first interview he had granted to U.S. journalists in a year. Following the interview, he personally led Gart and Brelis on an extraordinary tour of Baghdad. He took the wheel of his bulletproof Mercedes and, with an eleven-car security convoy in tow, pulled off on a whirlwind adventure. All together, Brelis and Gart spent nearly five hours with Saddam Hussein. Sums up Gart: "It was rather nice and not unflattering for the Iraqi President to be our driver and tour guide...
...Hend seemed decorous, at least at first. Indeed, he is still listed as Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of Defense and is a brother of Saudi King Fahd. But the couple, like Mohammad and Tarek, tended to party all night and sleep all day, and traveled in a convoy of three limousines, two security cars and a van. They also became chummy with Alvin Malnik, a Miami attorney said to have underworld connections. It was not until last February, however, that their image problem got serious. After a series of reports that they were mistreating their help, Dade County...
Although they have not other mujahedin, the Soviets have prevented irrigation of the crops, and that could lead to drought and famine later in the year. The Soviets wanted to move a thousand Communist volunteers into the Panjshir to settle the valley, but a convoy carrying the volunteers was ambushed and destroyed...