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Ugly plumes of black smoke hung over the huge Iranian oil refinery in Abadan last week. Just two miles away, Iraqi artillery units kept firing shells into the besieged port at the head of the Persian Gulf. Iraqi MiG-23s swooped overhead in bombing raids, drawing intense antiaircraft fire. One MiG-23, spewing smoke, crashed near Basra, inside Iraq. Huddled behind sandbags or in the ravaged interiors of buildings, the Iranians are conducting an incessant artillery duel with the enemy. Although Iraq held a long strip of Iranian territory (see map), the situation was different toward the north, where Iranian...
...each side. In all, more than 10,000 Iranians and roughly the same number of Iraqis have died since the Iraqis attacked on Sept. 22, 1980. Their aim: to seize the strategic Shatt al Arab estuary, a waterway long disputed by the two neighboring countries that runs into the Persian Gulf. The Iraqis failed in this objective and everyone has suffered. Now the Shatt al Arab is useless to both countries; some 70 ships have been trapped in the waters by the fighting. As one Iranian diplomat sums up the situation: "There is no end to this crazy...
...next day when the Frankfurt Rundschau, a left-of-center daily, received a three-page type written letter explaining in turgid jargon that Kroesen had been attacked "because he is one of the U.S. generals who effectively hold in their hands the imperialist policy from Western Europe to the [Persian] Gulf...
...deal turns out to be as fishy as the dealer. Instead of penciling a manuscript-there is no manuscript-Halliday finds himself enmeshed in devious negotiations initiated by a Persian Gulf emir identified only as the Ruler. The potentate is eager to lease territory he controls to NATO as a major allied military base. Zander-Luccio, the Pike, serves as middleman in the deal, hoping that a grateful U.S. Government will thereafter provide him with political asylum and a new identity. After a long career of nastiness in the Middle East, he has learned that he is the target...
Sadat used several maps to illustrate the growing Soviet presence in the Persian Gulf region and Africa and pressed for more U.S. aid and military equipment. The U.S. must be firm in resisting Soviet expansion, he said, but he made a strong plea that anti-Communism not be equated with opposition to national liberation struggles. As he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City: "The U.S. should support liberation movements everywhere. The case in point is now Namibia. We pressed our friends in Washington to put more pressure on South Africa to comply with the United Nations...