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Speculation that the Iranians were on the verge of opening a second front increased Wednesday when two Iranian F-4 Phantom jets staged a dawn air attack on Baghdad. One Iranian plane was shot down and the other dropped its bombs on the wrong target, hitting a hotel instead of the conference center where a meeting of nonaligned nations is scheduled to be held in September, against the strident objections of the Iranian government...
...said the governing military council hoped to end martial law "before the end of the year," he added that the Sejm would first have to grant the Council of Ministers unspecified "special powers." It did not take long for Poles to see for themselves that little had changed. Before dawn on National Day, security forces destroyed a cross of evergreens and flowers that had been placed in Warsaw's Victory Square to honor Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Polish Primate who died last year. It was the fourth time that the authorities had swept away the cross. Later...
...Dawn Martin Roselle...
...latest negotiations followed the most intensive artillery battle that Beirut has suffered throughout the war. Lebanese authorities estimated that just before the latest cease-fire took effect, 20 to 30 shells a minute were raining down on West Beirut and its suburbs. From dawn to dusk Israeli gunboats and hilltop artillery traded fire with Palestinian fighters perched on trucks mounted with Katyusha rocket launchers. The P.L.O.'s hit-and-run tactics proved more effective than in previous skirmishes. According to P.L.O. officials, some 25 Israeli vehicles were destroyed by P.L.O. rockets. The Presidential Palace in Baabda...
...Dawn We Slept, Prange