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...handful of people remaining in Damur stood in a bedraggled group near a church-quiet, anxious, clinging to their few belongings, which they had wrapped in small rugs. The leftists' commander, Abu Musa-a polite, unshaven Fatah officer-charged that Lebanese army commandos had helped defend the town, even though the army is supposed to be neutral. He gave the civilians the choice of staying or leaving for Christian-held areas; they chose to leave. Except for medicine and bare necessities, they were not allowed to take anything with them. Militiamen loaded furniture, household goods, washing machines and stereo...
Since the British pulled out of the Persian Gulf in 1971, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has engaged in an expansionary policy aimed at filling the power vacuum. His troops have occupied the Persian Gulf islands of Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, which-despite their comic-opera names-guard the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which 120 tankers a day carry a little more than half the oil consumed by the non-Communist world. Iran earlier had abrogated a treaty granting equal navigational rights to the crucial Shatt al-Arab, a confluence of the Tigris...
...drove on to 'Uyun Musa, a lonely spot on the Gulf of Suez where Moses was supposed to have found water by striking a rock; now it was the site of the last fully intact fortification of the Israeli Bar-Lev Line. The 400 Egyptian troops manning it gave their visitors a rousing welcome. Standing on the ruined Israeli guns, they clapped hands, beat leather drums, danced and sang. "We destroyed their fortifications," one improvised song boasted. "The Israelis fled 'Uyun Musa. We destroyed them...
...government called in troops. In Peshawar,* students, shouting antigovernment slogans, broke into the U.S. Information Service offices and ransacked them, then pelted trains and buses with rocks. Even veiled women participated in some of the protests-a rare act in conservative Moslem Pakistan. The governor of West Pakistan, Mohammed Musa, appealed three times in two weeks over nation wide radio for an end to the disturbances-in vain...
Also high on her list of priorities is the implementation of the Tashkent agreement, which she praised last week as "a good agreement" and one "I will abide by." She was already making impressive progress. Last week Pakistan's Army Commander Mohammed Musa flew into Delhi for talks with his Indian opposite number about a mutual withdrawal from the war front. At week's end the two sides even began exchanging prisoners...