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...Iraqi drive was aimed at three principal targets: the oil-refining center of Abadan, Khuzistan's capital of Ahwaz, and the important communications junction of Dezful, 150 miles north of Khorramshahr. Outraged Iranian officials announced in midweek that Iraq had fired four Soviet-supplied surface-to-surface missiles on Dezful and neighboring Andimeshk, causing heavy casualties. Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, calling the Iraqi action "insane," said that most of the 170 people killed and 300 wounded were civilians. Each of the missiles has a range of about 55 miles-approximately the distance from the Iraqi...
...midweek 47,000 reservists had reported for duty in response to President Banisadr's call-up of the class of 1977-78. In cars and pickup trucks and on motorbikes, thousands of small armed militia groups "headed toward the front. Civilians organized convoys of food, clothing, medicine and fuel. As each newly formed battalion set off, townspeople showered it with flowers and made it pass under a copy of the Holy Koran -a Persian tradition aimed at exorcising evil. With stoic fatalism the young bride of a soldier who had just left for the fighting remarked: "Life...
...would once again be cut off. Last week, as the war between Iran and Iraq threatened to make that bad dream a reality, financial centers from New York to Tokyo immediately trembled. But the markets then responded with surprising strength and absence of panic. Said one Manhattan stockbroker at midweek: "The market seems to be taking this as if nothing were happening. It seemed that the latest Middle East war was one the Western oil-consuming world could still afford, at least for the moment...
News of the Gdansk agreement failed to stem the tide of the mining protest, and tensions were further heightened when a runaway coal car killed eight men in the Halemba Mine near Katowice. By midweek, 200,000 workers from some 22 mines and 50 factories had allied themselves with a central strike committee at the Manifest Lipcowy Mine in the southern town of Jastrzebie. To the 21 Gdansk demands, the miners added several of their own, including improved safety measures and an end to the four-shift "brigade" system begun last year to enable the mines to operate 24 hours...
Nothing underlined official concern at midweek more vividly than an extraordinary telecast of a recorded sermon by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. As head of Poland's Catholic hierarchy, a bastion of antiCommunism, the 79-year-old prelate had traditionally been denied access to the state broadcasting network...