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...breathe cleaner air," quipped Ahmad Hozzar, a Tehran grocer, when asked how the war had changed his life. "The war taught me I was not as helpless as I thought," said Hassan Torabi, the owner of a tea shop. "I never thought I could still ride a bicycle until I tried it two weeks ago. I had to-after 23 years." Because of rationing, Torabi has temporarily stopped using his car, a locally assembled Peykan. Every motorist is entitled to 30 liters of gasoline a month, but getting the ration involves several hours in line at filling stations. Even then...
Saddam tolerates no opposition. Iraqi jails are said to be filled with political prisoners. No sooner had Saddam assumed the presidency from ailing Ahmed Hassan al Bakr last year than he ordered scores of top government officials arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow his regime. He presided over the execution of 21 officials, including a popular Deputy Premier who had been a close friend. Two battered typewriters on which he and his revolutionary comrades once composed antigovernment propaganda are now on display in a Baghdad museum. At the same time, however, Iraqi citizens must have a license...
...real meaning of the meeting lay in the apparent decision of the P.L.O. leader to make so conciliatory a gesture at this time. Even to some Israelis, the incident tended to lend credence to a telling public remark made by Morocco's King Hassan II last week. The P.L.O., said Hassan, was ready at long last to accept the existence of Israel "within secure and recognized boundaries," if Israel would agree to similar recognition of a Palestinian state. Said Uri Avnery, a prominent leftist member of the Knesset: "This has been in the works for years...
...Jerusalem, Sadat shot off an 18-page letter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, explaining that he had no choice but to suspend the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy (see box). Sadat's decision won him plaudits among his estranged Arab neighbors. Morocco's King Hassan II and Jordan's King Hussein have joined the Saudis in trying to lure Sadat back to the Arab fold, and have let it be known that he might gain some badly needed oil money to shore up Egypt's economy. Explained Chedli Klibi, the Tunisian secretary-general...
...scarcely the most burning issue of foreign policy. Some members of a Cabinet-level policy review committee favored selling military equipment to King Hassan II of Morocco; others on the panel feared that doing so would tie the U.S. too closely to another shaky throne. When a story about the disagreement appeared in the Washington Post last October, hardly anyone noticed-except Jimmy Carter, whose wrath led to an extreme step that no other Administration had taken to try to stop leaks to the press...