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Iraq's initial blitz had clearly failed to produce anything like the swift and easy victory that Baghdad may have anticipated. Iraq evidently miscalculated Iran's military resilience. After an initial withdrawal in the face of the Iraqis' surprise invasion along a 500-mile front, Iran rebounded with a vengeance. Iraqi claims about the capture of four cities inside Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province in the first week of fighting proved to be embarrassingly premature. While Iranian main forces, an amalgam of Islamic Revolutionary Guards, border guards and army troops, took on the Iraqi regulars...
Still, there could be no denying that Iraq was in control of a 30-mile swatch of Iranian territory east of the Shatt al Arab, the 120-mile-long border waterway that empties into the Persian Gulf. There, on the ground, the rival forces were locked in battle at four critical locations...
...nearby oil-refining center of Abadan, which Iraqi infantry columns were seeking to encircle with the aid of heavy artillery fired across the Shatt al Arab from the town of Sieba one mile away...
...would complain about the day, a beautiful crisp fall afternoon, or the course, a three-mile trek through the Hanover golf course, or even Harvard's performance. Darlene Beckford did the predictable, winning the race in a mere 17:00, one second shy of the course record...
...Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) is seeking community approval for a proposal to replace the outdated streetlights lining a two-mile stretch of Memorial Drive with more modern, mercury vapor lights...