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Cracks in Tehran's confidence became visible late last February, after the Iranians revived the so-called war of the cities by firing two missiles into Baghdad, the capital, and Basra, the key port city in the south. The Iraqis reacted in kind. Rockets fell on Tehran, on the holy city of Qum and other Iranian towns, and sent civilians fleeing. Between Feb. 29 and April 19, when the missile war was halted, Iraq fired 160 Soviet-made Scud-B missiles, which had been modified to increase their range beyond the normal 175 miles. The bombs killed and wounded hundreds...
Finally, on May 25, Iraqi forces threw Iranian troops out of an important salient: territory east of the port of Basra that had been a staging area for Iranian artillery bombardments of the city. The operation reportedly took just five hours, with the Iranians putting up only token resistance...
...with the usual results: money goes far but only so far. Characters suffer fates made familiar by recent headlines and gossip columnists: a coarse financial tycoon rises and then falls in an insider-trading scandal; a TV newsman married to an aristocrat grows bored and casts off for another port; the homosexual son of one of the town's most respected families gets AIDS...
...first chill of winter swept across South Africa last week, a few white families braved the weather to relax on King's Beach, a strip along the Indian Ocean in the eastern Cape city of Port Elizabeth. Parents reclined under striped umbrellas as black maids took the children to play in the waves. Not far away, a colored (mixed race) man, his wife and two small children enjoyed a picnic on the sand. For a brief time last month, such racially mixed scenes were countenanced by law at Port Elizabeth, after the state Supreme Court struck down local city ordinances...
...Port Elizabeth court decision grew out of a 1987 incident in which the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, head of the opposition Labor Party and a member of the Botha Cabinet, took a dip at King's Beach. His action drew a strong rebuke from President Botha, who threatened to drop him from the Cabinet, dissolve Parliament and call a general election unless Hendrickse apologized. Hendrickse backed down, but two Port Elizabeth city councilors fought the restrictive beach ordinance up to the Supreme Court. The stricture was ruled invalid on a technicality, and Hendrickse announced that he was prepared to test...