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Iraq now has uncontested control of Khorramshahr, up to the banks of the Karun River. But the seemingly endless rows of pockmarked or gutted houses provide vivid proof that the door-to-door fighting was bitter and bloody. Iraqi soldiers recount with incredulity how Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's zealous guardsmen, after their ammunition was exhausted, persisted in fighting to the death with sticks and knives. Said an Iraqi major who conducted some of the mop-up operations: "They were crazy. Many of them wore a gold key around their necks. They said they were told by Khomeini...
Liakos joined HSA as an assistant manager of the Harvard Distribution Service, a year-old agency which distributes literature door-to-door on campus. She worked there through the summer and became manager of the publishing division, which composes the 'Let's Go' travel series...
...taste, or worse, bring bad luck. The Reagan people work from nine-to-five, the kind of hours their favorite kept up when he was governor of California. The Republican's campaign headquarters are spacious, and, for the most part, empty. No more envelopes left to stuff, no more door-to-door canvassing and lit dropping--and so the volunteers stay home. One pot of coffee adequately hypes those who appear each morning and leave in time for dinner. It is the campaign as business: not the corporation's most lucrative or difficult deal, but every deal counts...
...Hampshire voters are accustomed to "sitting down at the kitchen table" with presidential candidates, the "other"--non-presidential--contenders must do extensive grass roots campaigning. That suits Durkin just fine. "For the last five days, he's been up at 6 a.m. to visit factories. Hand-to-hand, door-to-door, that's the senator's style," his press secretary says...
...Georgia bureau of investigation is pitching in, the FBI is providing national crime-lab facilities, and a psychiatrist at Emory University is trying to develop profiles of the killer or killers. In addition, Atlanta officials have enlisted 450 fire-and policemen in an unprecedented twelve-hour-a-day, door-to-door canvass to ask residents if they have seen anything unusual and give them pictures of the missing children. Says Fireman William Eberhardt: "This way the people see you're involved, and they have a tendency to get into the act themselves." True enough, if the neighborhood...