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Hardly anyone, within the region or without, believes the Khomeini regime is about to dissolve, although once again rumors are flying that the Iranian leader is seriously ill. Certainly his rhetoric remains harsh and unyielding. "The fate of the war will be decided on the war fronts, not through negotiations," Khomeini, 87, declared in a speech read by his son Ahmed at the opening of Iran's newly elected Parliament two weeks ago. "Victory will be ours...
Conditions are harsh but not inhumane. There is enough water for drinking, occasional showers and laundering each prisoner's army-issue shirt and pants. Everyone receives one bar of soap a month. The food is army rations -- filling but hardly appetizing. The primitive latrines reek; rats, scorpions and mosquitoes are ever on the prowl...
Justice is almost as harsh for Israelis accused of supporting the intifadeh. Last February the authorities closed down the tiny left-wing newspaper Derech Hanitzotz (Way of the Spark), which was known for its pro-Arab views. Eventually all six of the paper's editorial staffers -- five Jews and one Arab -- were arrested. Israel accused two of the publication's female editors of membership in the illegal Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Remanded for trial, the journalists have been held without bail in a women's prison, where inmates last week violently assaulted them...
Arab prisoners are held for months without charges or trial for joining the revolt against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. They endure searing days and chilly nights under harsh conditions. -- Stomach cancer sidelines El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte as his country drifts further into crisis. -- Apartheid squabbles on the seashore in South Africa...
...Cross began a month-long inspection tour of 15 prisons, the first time the organization has been given permission to make such an investigation. The group's first stop was the Boniato jail, where the investigators reportedly found no plantados, the counterrevolutionaries who allegedly have come in for harsh treatment because they refuse rehabilitation...