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...most vivid memory," Rodriguez recalls--and his large, brown eyes flash--"is the concentration camp they brought us to for 72 hours before we got on the boat--thousands of people sleeping on rocks with no food. We were beaten and mistreated by police and police dogs...
Destiny took a holiday that Thursday night. With the absolute clarity that comes from television lights and the pressure that comes from the yearnings of millions, (pressure to create diamonds!), Ali saw that he was going to lose. So, like Vinnie Curto, the East Boston flash, so many years ago, he just didn't show up. Oh, his body was there, and enough will to throw maybe two dozen punches over the space of ten rounds. But in every important way, he was a million light years from home...
...having first met then Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein in 1975. The story was written by the International section's Spencer Davidson, onetime acting Beirut bureau chief who has traveled extensively in the area since 1970. Says Davidson: "The Middle East has more crisis flash points than any other place in the world. This is an unfortunate circumstance, since the tradition of the people there is essentially one of great friendship and courtesy...
...Arkansas, the questions being raised about the Titan accident were much more parochial and intense. Cleburne County Judge Dan Verser asked at a hearing at Little Rock Air Force Base whether he should worry when warning lights flash and sirens howl at a Titan silo near his farm in Heber Springs, 25 miles east of Damascus. Colonel John Moser, commander of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing at Little Rock, replied that "99 times out of 100" the warnings are caused by equipment failure and "there is no need to evacuate until you're told to evacuate." Moser was quickly...
Regional Stability. The war brought cautious Arab support for Iraq, tempered by concern over possible retaliation by Iran. Yet despite their dislike for the Khomeini regime, the rulers of the conservative Arab gulf states were hardly happy with one more flash point in an area already troubled by the Arab-Israeli dispute in the west and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the east. An Iraqi victory would add a new name to the list of potential pan-Arab leaders, that of ambitious President Saddam Hussein, 43, who wants to make his country the dominant power in the gulf; defeat...