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Bush has emerged as the main challenger to Reagan in what will be the first serious clash of the long preconvention struggle: on Jan. 21 Iowa will hold caucuses in 2,531 precincts, the initial step in the process by which the states' Republicans will choose their delegates. Bush has even managed to beat Reagan in some straw votes. Says Connally Iowa Chairman David Readinger: "I think Bush has a chance to win it here...
...Sacred Mosque is a gigantic holy place that can hold as many as 300,000 worshipers. At the center of its courtyard, which is 40 acres in size, is the Ka'ba. Muslims believe that this cube-shaped structure, covered always by a black cloth embroidered in gold, was erected to God by Abraham and that it was cleansed of idols by the Prophet Muhammad in A.D. 630. The Ka'ba is the chief focus of prayer and ritual during the hajj, the annual pilgrimage that this year drew more than 2 million Muslims to Mecca...
Fleeing from famine and war, an estimated 560,000 homeless Cambodians are massed along their country's ill-defined western border with Thailand. Last week the Thai military command announced that the country would move most of the refugees from insecure frontier areas and establish huge camps to hold them. Thai officials contend that many of the Cambodians are actually inside their country already; even so, the 560,000 may be only part of an exodus even larger than the tragic flight of more than 700,000 refugees from Viet...
...Khao I Dang in Thailand, seven miles from the frontier, international aid officials last week were hastily constructing a transit camp to hold 200,000 people; the camp will be able to provide rudimentary care for the sick and starving. While Thai workers with bulldozers and excavators were preparing 1.6 square miles of rolling grassland for the campsite and building latrines, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was trucking in food, medical supplies and relief personnel from Bangkok. As soon as the camp is fully staffed, the plan calls for bringing 10,000 refugees each day from the frontier, walking...
...brought with them to Thailand. In a makeshift maternity ward at Sakaew, a Red Cross volunteer, Midwife Judith Greenberg of Oakland, Calif, told Clark that the mothers appeared not to care whether their babies were born dead or alive. "Many of the exhausted and sick mothers don't hold their babies or even look at them. Yet they continue to procreate even under the difficult conditions they've been through...