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...From the outset, Iraq has claimed that the nearly completed, $260 million French-built research reactor, scheduled to be activated this summer was intended only to train Iraqi scientists and technicians in nuclear technology. A facility was first discussed in 1974 by then French Premier Jacques Chirac and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The final agreement led to the erection of the 70-MW reactor at the Tammuz nuclear center in the desert at El-Tuwaitha. It was supported by an 800-kW minireactor, separately housed and untouched by the raid, that was used for minor experiments and to prepare...
...From the outset, however, the celebrations ran afoul of the country's bitter, racially divided heritage. At Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, black and white students boycotted classes to protest the festival and set off three days of demonstrations, flag burnings and brawls. On the outskirts of the city, police fired tear gas and waded into crowds of demonstrators with dogs and sjamboks, quirts traditionally used by Afrikaner farmers and originally made of rhino hide. Soon more than 50 organizations with a total membership in the millions were formally boycotting the festivities. Declared an ad hoc committee...
...Habib's talkathon might be paying off came early in the week, when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin made the surprising announcement that his Cabinet had unanimously voted "to put no time limit whatsoever" on Habib's efforts to solve the problem through diplomatic channels. At the outset of the crisis, Begin had darkly hinted that Secretary of State Alexander Haig's envoy had only a week to work his magic, or Israel would attack the missiles. Two days after the Cabinet meeting, in what seemed to be a reassuring signal to Syria's President Hafez...
...laxwomen looked sluggish from the outset, forcing passes and not using the full length of the field against the tight Husky zone defense. But the dazzling Den Hartog eventually took things into her own hands at 22:15 with a blistering "now-you-see-it-now-you're down-1-0" shot over the Northeastern goalie, Phyllis Kossak's, left shoulder...
...fiendish target for caricaturing that he hasn't enjoyed since the days of Nixon's sinister 5 o'clock shadow. Herblock's Haig is an overepauleted, Napoleonic Dr. Strangelove. Not all the press's labels have been so unfriendly, at least at the outset. Reagan's budget-cutting David Stockman is often referred to as "the brilliant 34-year-old conservative," but as Russell Baker noted in a fine, wry column, "Whom the media would destroy they first make young and brilliant." This happens, Baker suggests, less from cunning than from an occupational instinct...