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Although its population is one-third the size of Iran's, Iraq has more men under arms (1 million, vs. about 650,000). Iraq also enjoys an edge in tanks, training and aircraft. On the home front, war weariness began to grip Iran and military enlistments dropped sharply. The normal contingent of 300,000 baseeji (volunteers) attached to Iran's Revolutionary Guards has lately fallen off by one-third, according to Western estimates. "There's no heroism in it for the village boys," a Western diplomat in Tehran told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. "They're afraid of chemical weapons...
...running up the sexual score. Greed, he concludes, "is the cleanest of vices, the one most easily and publicly rebuked by reality." His good book suggests otherwise. Its lively pages testify to the tendency of greed (or any other vice) to distort reality and ensure that those in its grip will keep coming back for more...
Gorbachev dominates an extraordinary Communist Party gabfest, part town meeting and part gripe session. Delegates endorse the Soviet leader' s plan for a presidential system that could relax the Communist Party' s grip...
...advantage; he's so strong. But he does things that are mistakes that he might have to pay for." Is Spinks afraid? "Sure, I've got to have my fear," he says. "I refuse to go into the ring without it." But he also says, "I have a nice grip on my pride: I boss it around. I wear it when I should. I throw it in the corner when I don't need it." He'll need it sometime Monday night...
Skeptics argue that the summit was designed to strengthen Gorbachev's hand for the upcoming Communist Party conference. This meeting is crucial for the Soviet leader, who will seek approval of measures to loosen Moscow's grip on industry and daily life, to democratize the Communist Party, and to strengthen freedoms of speech, conscience, and assembly...