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Banner headlines in Iraqi newspapers last Friday proclaimed WE DESTROYED KHARG ISLAND. The papers reported a "massive blitz" by Iraqi planes against the terminal, one of the world's largest, through which flow 90% of Iran's crude-oil exports of 1.6 million bbl. a day. If indeed Iraq had destroyed the terminal, it would have been a turning point in the five-year-old gulf war. By late last week, however, oil-industry experts concluded that although Iraqi jets had managed to penetrate the heavily defended southeastern, landward side of the complex known as "T terminal," the strike would...
...government's curb on press coverage of clashes between police and black protesters may have stopped the flow of violent images from South Africa's battered townships, but it has not stanched the flow of blood. While the average number of deaths each day dropped from 3.4 to fewer than two in the weeks immediately following Pretoria's imposition of media restraints on Nov. 2, the average daily toll last week rose above five. The statistic was a sharp challenge to the government's contention that without television and camera crews present to incite publicity-hungry blacks to violent heroics...
...particularly employers who hire illegals. He finds it "an absolute disgrace that it's illegal to come here but not to work here. It must become illegal to hire." Illegal entries cannot be stopped, he says, until penalties are placed upon employers: "Cut the jobs, and you cut the flow...
...million and a per capita gross national product of about $8,000 (vs. $9,000 in Britain), is the result of both softening demand for petroleum and poor economic planning. Oil revenues are down from $22 billion in 1980 to an anticipated $8 billion this year. "The cash-flow problem is hurting," said a Western diplomat in Tripoli. "It is like taking a 60% salary cut and trying to keep up with the payments on the house and car." Some construction contracts have been canceled, and imports of many consumer goods, including food, have been slashed. But the defense budget...
...country's stability, officials said, had been badly shaken by the tactics of South Africa, which completely surrounds Lesotho. Less than two miles away, at the Caledon River Bridge, which stands between the two countries, South African police and military were conducting security searches that severely restricted the daily flow of vital supplies into Lesotho. The beleaguered country appealed to the U.S. and other Western nations to organize an airlift. "We are a hostage country," said Information Minister Desmond Sixishe. "I wish South Africa would pick on someone its own size...