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Last Monday evening thousands of Islamic Guards and volunteer troops, backed by several regular army divisions, swept across a flat plain toward Iraqi positions near the border of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. It was the beginning of yet another major effort to drive enemy forces from Iranian soil, seize Iraqi territory in return, and ultimately bring down the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although the offensive apparently failed to score any immediate breakthrough, it was clear that another grim and bloody chapter in the 2½-year-old Persian Gulf war was in the making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: The Last Blow | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

Outside, most passersby don't even know what organization occupies the plain-looking building, let alone what views the John Birch Society actually promotes. And many of those familiar with the Society don't think about it much...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Birchers Fight for Acceptance | 2/17/1983 | See Source »

...April, the shop will end its 13-year presence in the quiet section of the city. The landlord has refused to renew the lease, so the Red Book Store is moving to Jamaica Plain in April. When the store packs up and moves to its new site, it will try to make its merchandise more accessible to the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. That would further the store's attempt, which started in 1975, to expand beyond communist books. The new, wide range of topics--Socialism, Anarchism, Feminism--has helped bolster business...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Red Book Sells Radical Wares | 2/17/1983 | See Source »

...revision will be discussed at a meeting for concentrators on February 25, and a questionnaire will be distributed then to allow for students' criticism of the plain...

Author: By Jocelyne R. Lamm, | Title: Math Faculty Committee Proposes Curriculum Revision | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Zhivkov, who has been in power longer than any other Soviet-bloc leader, is a sprightly, plain-spoken man given to proferring glasses of yogurt to his guests. Though obedient to Moscow, he has cautiously attempted to create a Socialist state more attuned to Bulgarian needs. His economic program, while not as ambitious or as innovative as Hungary's, allows managers more flexibility than in the U.S.S.R. and encourages industrial workers to till plots of an acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: To Russia with Love | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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