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...million residents of the Khuzistan cities under Iraqi attack had reportedly fled either to central Iran or to nearby mountain refuges. One farfetched rumor had it that if the Iraqis captured Ahwaz, the Iranians would then open the gates of the 666-ft.-high dam on the Dez River near Dezful, thereby flooding much of the low-lying plains of Khuzistan...
After arriving in Peru, Rosalynn met privately with President Francisco Morales Bermúdez for almost three hours. She gently attempted to persuade her new hosts to slow the pace of the military buildup that had alarmed the Ecuadorians. This week she faces her sternest test-a three-day visit to Brazil, where the military dictatorship was outraged first by her husband's opposition to its plans to buy nuclear-fuel facilities from West Germany, and then by a State Department report citing human rights violations in Brazil...
...different breed of generals, the leftists: President Francisco Morales Bermůdez of Peru received us the day after he had tidied up a considerable turbulence in his regime. There had been two days and nights of military comings and goings at the Palacio Tupac Amaru, and at the end two influential generals were retired from the army. General Morales had either broken up a possible coup or, as one of the tame Lima newspapers put it, had simply moved "to have his own men in positions of trust and power, normal with all incoming Presidents in most parts...
...This term derives from the French "M'ai-dez"-"Help...
...Mary deZ. Greenebaum of New York (History and Literature); Martha L. Halpin of Waterbury. Conn. (English); Ellen G. Hawkes of Saratoga. Calif. (English); Louis E. Hertzmark of Milton (Mathematics) and Amy E. Johnson of Worcester (English...