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...President must have a vision of an ideal republic," he said. "He must have a course to steer, a port to seek...
...momentum in the seesaw war has increasingly swung in Iran's favor. In February, Tehran staged its most sophisticated assault of the long and bloody conflict. Named Val Fajr (I Swear by the Dawn), the attack seized the Iraqi oil port of Fao. Iraq recovered briefly by capturing the Iranian border town of Mehran in May, only to lose it again in June. Though it enjoys an enormous advantage in equipment, its reliance on rigid defensive tactics makes its soldiers vulnerable to the night attacks and lightning raids of its enemy. "Remember," says a senior U.S. official, "the Iranians...
...hands of the Buddhist Sinhalese majority. They said they were students, businessmen and skilled ! workers, and claimed to have paid an Indian "agent" up to $3,000 each for passage to Canada. Then followed a month aboard a ship that had picked them up at the south Indian port of Madras. But five days before the fishermen found them, the refugees said, the ship's crew told them that they had paid only to be transported "near" Canada rather than all the way. They were thereupon loaded into the scantily provisioned lifeboats and told that they were six miles from...
...week's end Canadian and West German police had pieced together the probable course of events. Late last month at least 200 Sri Lankans arrived in the small port of Brake, about 60 miles west of Hamburg, from elsewhere in Germany. Each had paid nearly $2,500 in cash and valuables for passage to Canada, but only 155 were permitted to board a ship, where they were confined to the hold and fed boiled rice. They were reportedly warned that they or their relatives would be harmed if they told the truth about their trip...
...interwoven. In fact, as Pik Botha was quick to emphasize, even while Mugabe was speaking out against Pretoria at the London meeting, Zimbabwe was negotiating to extend its existing trade agreement with South Africa. Over the long term the black states can reduce their dependence on the South African ports of Durban and Port Elizabeth by developing alternative trade routes, like the existing but inadequate highway and rail line between Zambia and the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. Zimbabwe will begin to divert freight from South Africa to Mozambique over roads and rail lines that are frequently sabotaged...