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...margaritas (in moderation). His circle of friends broadened from Duane Hoobing to Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine. An antiwar activist in the late '60s, he obtained a commission in the Naval Reserve in 1980 at the age of 44. He wanted to be ready to serve in the Persian Gulf if war broke out, he explained, although as a noncombat officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps-a military lawyer-he would probably get no closer to the front than the naval base at Norfolk, Va. In 1979 he separated from his wife Lee, who had been...
Calls for annual summit meeting between U.S. and Soviet leaders. Would use U.S. military force if necessary to keep oil flowing through the Persian Gulf. Would not change America's special relationship with Israel. Wants to maintain current U.S. troop strength in Europe...
Such an Iranian victory would certainly appear to represent the worst possible outcome. The prospect of holy war sweeping down on the relatively stable Persian Gulf regimes should strike fear into the hearts of all the Middle Eastern people particularly, and in general of all the people around the world hurt by the oil shocks of the 1970s (which means everyone) Iran has reserved to itself the right to close the critical Straits of Hormuz, through which 60 percent of the West's oil flows. The fanatic ideologues behind the revolutionary Iranian regime would not be averse to a hobbling...
Iran and Iraq have little to be proud of in their conduct of the 42-month-old war in the Persian Gulf. Iraq shoulders the blame for starting it all, invading Iran in a reckless attempt to seize some long-disputed border territory from the new and untried revolutionary government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iran, having repulsed the invasion, has taken the war into Iraq in hopes of forcing the downfall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the creation in Baghdad of an Islamic republic modeled on Iran's own. Iran has routinely executed large numbers of Iraqi...
...regime holds firmly to the belief that it is a religious duty to export revolution until an Islamic empire under the banner of Khomeini stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean-or beyond. Khomeini supporters were said to have been behind the food riots in Tunisia and Morocco earlier this year; authorities also believe that the Iranian-sponsored Al Dawa Party, a group of Iraqi subversives, organized six car bombings in Kuwait last December. Most alarming, some 2,000 Islamic Guards are positioned just inside the Syrian border, from where they make frequent trips into Lebanon to train...