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...peace settlement between the two countries and use that agreement as the basis of a new pro-Soviet alliance. No way, said Khomeini, adding that the real test of Soviet friendship rested on whether Moscow would publicly condemn Saddam Hussein as the aggressor in the war and would halt all arms shipments to Iraq. The Soviets temporized, finally concluding that there was little they could do to dissuade Khomeini from his determination to destroy Saddam Hussein. With Moscow's blessing, Syria gave Iran a shipment of sophisticated, Soviet-supplied weaponry (including missile batteries and antitank rocket launchers...
...assembly's action reinforced many campesinos' fears that the rightists are out to halt the land-reform program altogether. One deputy who voted for the winning motion acknowledged as much afterward when he said that the next step could be to break up the large cooperatives formed under Phase I of the agrarian reforms. Labor organizations joined with the campesinos last week in a call for a general strike to protest the assembly's decisions...
While some of this breakdown can be attributed to the team's youth. Kleinfelder seems at least partly responsible for failing to halt the team's mental slippage. Confronted with a controversy surrounding her dismissal as basketball coach in the middle of lacrosse season, Kleinfelder may have lost some of the intensity with which she has led the program over the last three years...
...early stages of the U.S. 1 block, traffic was strung out for up to 19 miles, and resorts in the Keys began reporting a drop of as much as 40% in tourist business. Key West symbolically seceded from the Union, and local officials begged Washington to call a halt. The only change, however, has been less strict checking to eliminate most of the delay...
Reagan's visceral opposition to a nuclear "freeze" is also disturbing, for a halt in the nuclear arms race would seem a logical precursor to reversing it. For one thing, the "freeze" is not necessarily as fuzzy a concept as its opponents claim, and could take the form of a mutual, comprehensive and relatively easily verifiable ban on testing and deploying new weapons. For another, the Administration has yet to make a convincing argument that theoretical Soviet strategic superiority, either in Europe or in the alleged ability to hit American land-based missiles, has much meaning in the real world...