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Then, without waiting for orders, 500 Iranian Islamic Guards and militiamen leaped out of their trenches swinging West German G3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles and Soviet antitank rocket launchers. Screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: A Hot and Holy War | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

That bizarre border battle two weeks ago was characteristic of the brand of bloody warfare the Iranians have been waging, with growing success, in an 18-month-old holy war against their Iraqi invaders. By combining conventional infantry and artillery tactics with suicidal attacks by fanatic Islamic Guards and irregulars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: A Hot and Holy War | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

He has never regretted the choice, despite Harvard's 31-56-6 four-year mark. An Economics major, he takes his studies seriously and looks ahead to Business school. He relieves the pressure of the netminding with fanatic rooting interest in all sports, and calls home to "cry on the...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Wade Lau | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

The shots rang across St. Peter's Square last May, one witness recalled, like "the popping of a string of firecrackers." Pope John Paul II lay grievously wounded, and a right-wing Turkish fanatic, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, barely escaped being torn to pieces by an angry mob for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Conspiracy to Kill the Pope | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Jamie Lee Curtis is sedated for most of Halloween II, but she hobbles out of bed, ultimately, in a bouncy hospital gown that shows a lot of leg as she rolls around in trash heaps trying to stay a couple feet ahead of the Bogevman. She's really cute, the...

Author: By David B. Edelstern, | Title: More Merriment | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

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