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...week with an intensity not seen since last year's bloody land battles. This time the teeming capitals of the two countries, Tehran and Baghdad, were among the targets. Iraqi jets struck Tehran and at least a dozen other Iranian cities. While Iranian artillery zeroed in on the Iraqi port city of Basra and ground forces launched an offensive in the vast Huwaiza marshes of southern Iraq, aircraft raided Baghdad. When a huge explosion shattered part of the 13-story Baghdad headquarters of Iraq's Rafidain Bank, Tehran claimed that one of its surface- to-surface missiles...
...city at the center of the storm was Basra, a once busy and prosperous port (pop. 1.2 million in 1980) on the Shatt al Arab waterway formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. After Iraq's invasion in September 1980, Iranian artillery frequently shelled the city; ever since, Basra has been in a state of decay, its population reduced to 1 million, its trade cut to almost nothing. Two weeks ago, Iranian artillery attacks against the town resumed and doctors at the Basra city hospital once again were working around the clock. Remaining residents stayed indoors, barricading...
Almost nothing has succeeded in Duluth over the past three or four years. A once great port, which sent the resources of the Iron Range to the rest of the world via the massive are boats that ply Lake Superior, has faded...
Sources in the Persian Gulf reported that Iraqi jet fighters resumed attacks on Iran's Kharg Island oil port, blowing up a supply ship and killing six of its crew...
Think of it: island hopping on your private yacht and watching the sun set in the port of your choice. Thanks to provisions of the U.S. tax code, a booming charter industry has sprung up to make such dreams come true. The tax shelters enable landlubber investors to buy yachts and lease them to vacationers for as little as $600 per person per week, or about the cost of a first-class beach resort. Says Simon Scott, marketing manager of The Moorings, a charter company that operates 110 yachts in the Caribbean islands of Tortola and St. Lucia: "Yachting...