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Iraq charges that the Kurds are supplied with sophisticated equipment by the U.S. and Iran. TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who returned from a 13-day trip to Iraq last week, saw no evidence of this. The Kurds have only a few heavy weapons-notably World War II-vintage antiaircraft guns. But Iran, long at odds with the far-left Iraqi government, may well be providing the Kurds with small arms. The rifles carried by Barzani's bandoliered troops are mostly Czech-designed, Iran-manufactured Brno rifles...
...south of the Kurds' mountainous, 10,000-sq.-mi. redoubt," reports Fitchett, "are Kurdish valleys where villages have been largely deserted. Fearful of air raids, entire families have taken to living in caves. Even in towns farther back in the mountains, almost all activity occurs at night, including grammar school for pupils,, who carry flashlights to get to their classes. The foothills are now a contested no man's land that has already been the scene of several skirmishes." Among other triumphs, the Kurdish radio claims that the Pesh Merga killed one Iraqi general hi combat and shot...
...world." It was also intended to expose the "imperialism" of Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Japan. Then he started to weep and apologized for "causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene: "Passengers were barely clear before a wisp of black smoke curled out of the cockpit. A tongue of flame followed, then crept back along the top of the fuselage. The plane began to collapse with a series of small reports. Finally, the tail section keeled down...
Midnight Call. At 9:39 p.m., reported TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene, muffled bursts of automatic-weapons fire came from inside the embassy and echoed over the neighborhood. The sandstorm grew fiercer and dogs howled as garbage cans were blown along the streets. A police officer suggested that the terrorists had just been shooting at a light accidentally played on them. But at midnight, a Sudan official called the U.S. Embassy and confirmed the fears of Mrs. Noel and Mrs. Moore, who had been waiting out the horror together: both their husbands were dead...