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Back in Basra, I talked to one of that city's leading citizens, a Sunni merchant. He said he had no plans to leave, although almost all foreigners have already fled and business has come to a standstill. He is counting on a cease-fire by the end of October, although he agrees that the Iranians will not easily give up their dream of capturing Basra. "Most of the Iranians are members of the Shi'ite sect of Islam, and they want Basra," he explains, "because they know the Shi'ites here will welcome them with open...
...swimming facilities at Hugh Hefner's Los Angeles mansion as "the herpes pool." A Manhattan resident who had always longed to disport himself at a sexual playpen called Plato's Retreat now says he will go only if he can wear a full-length wet suit. Flesh Merchant Al Goldstein, editor of Screw magazine, says glumly, "It may be there is a god in heaven carving out his pound of flesh for all our joys...
...then the quality of law-and-order in the streets has been erratic. Some shopkeepers complained of armed gangs demanding food or liquor, and rumors spread about car thefts and people forcing their way into gasoline lines at the point of a gun. On the bright side, as one merchant noted: "There is not much looting because there is nowhere to take the Loot. You can't steal it and go off to sell it elsewhere. We are all stuck here together...
Though few specifics were known of the Habib negotiations in Beirut, one senior U.S. diplomat declared that the talks had reached the "rug merchant stage," implying that the various sides were haggling over the details of a P.L.O. withdrawal. By the end of the week, all parties were believed to have accepted the main principles of the U.S.-Lebanese plan. The P.L.O. realized that it must move its basic operations out of Lebanon, while the Israelis grudgingly accepted the idea that the Palestinians could retain a political office of some kind in Beirut...
When the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain threatened two years ago to fold its longtime flagship Cleveland Press, at which E.W. Scripps launched his empire in 1878, Joseph E. Cole, 67, a Democratic Party activist and millionaire merchant, stepped in. Cole insisted that a local owner could better compete with the Newhouse-owned rival Plain Dealer to keep Cleveland from becoming a one-newspaper town. With the same confidence that had lifted him from poverty as the youngest of a peddler's eight children, Cole spent $1 million acquiring the Press and an estimated $18 million to $20 million sustaining...