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...biggest refineries in the world (587,000 bbl.-per-day capacity) and the principal source of fuel for Iran's domestic needs, flames and smoke shot skyward. "There are going to be a lot of cold Iranians this winter as a result," said a U.S. diplomat monitoring the fighting. In Tehran, the government decreed that no gasoline would be sold to private motorists for at least a week...
...some who have watched him at first hand, Saddam projects a dual personality. Says a Western diplomat: "You think he's the most brutal of the brutal, and then there he is in the market fondling babies. It's really quite amazing." On tour, he loves to hand out wads of freshly minted bank notes to astonished villagers, and one of his pet schemes is to see that everyone under 45 becomes literate. Typically, however, there is no free choice about it: those who do not go to class are fined or jailed. In 1963 he married...
...stereotypical boisterous Nigerian politician. But when the former school-teacher speaks, people listen. The reason: he is the leader of a country that boasts Africa's biggest population (90 million), largest standing army (130,000) and a G.N.P. of more than $50 billion. As one African diplomat puts it, "Whenever there is an important African issue, everyone waits to see what Nigeria decides. You can oppose it, but you must always take it into account...
...network of independent trade unions now being formed represents the wild card in Poland's economic future. "The question," says a West European diplomat in Warsaw, "is whether they will behave like British unions, which are interested only in their own demands, regardless of the cost to the nation, or whether they will, like West German unions, moderate their demands so as not to harm the overall economy." Poles at large were generally aware of that danger. The country's economy, as Communist Party Official Mieczyslaw Rakowski describes it, "already resembles a punching bag hanging from a thin...
...dramatic debut was in keeping with von Wechmar's reputation as an independent-minded maverick as well as an astute diplomat. More important, his election conveyed a special symbolic meaning: he is the first German-East or West-to hold the General Assembly presidency. The choice was an obvious confirmation of West Germany's postwar rise to political and economic power, and to what the Stuttgarter Zeitung called "full moral acceptance...