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...Exocets, the Iraqis will be better able to threaten Iran's oil exports. Though the missiles cannot knock out the installations at Kharg island, which are well defended and have already withstood Iraqi bombing, the Exocets could be used to discourage vulnerable tankers from calling at the Iranian port. Without ever firing a shot, Iraq could diminish Tehran's main flow of income, thus crippling Iran's ability to wage a war of attrition against the economically strapped Iraqis...
...searched for peaceful ways to increase its oil exports. Saudi Arabia tried to persuade Syrian President Hafez Assad to reopen the pipeline to the Mediterranean, but to no avail. Baghdad struck an agreement in principle with the Saudis to move oil across the kingdom to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. A completely new pipeline, however, would take at least four years to build. Meanwhile, the Iraqis are trying to rebuild their facilities...
...court has sought to expedite the labyrinthine appeals process, but to little avail as yet. The Autry case seemed to be typical of how the Justices would like to see such cases handled. In 1980, Autry was sentenced to death for murdering Store Clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, in Port Arthur, Texas, when the mother of five asked him to pay $2.70 for a six-pack of beer. "Here's your $2.70," he said and shot her between the eyes. After the conviction, Autry's attorney had appeals turned down in state and federal courts. When his case reached...
...phenomenon of zombiism. According to Haitian belief, a zombie is an individual who has been "killed" and then raised from the dead by malevolent voodoo priests known as "bocors." Though most educated Haitians deny the existence of zombies, Dr. Lamarque Douyon, Canadian-trained head of the Psychiatric Center in Port-au-Prince, has been trying for 25 years to establish the truth about the phenomenon, no easy matter in a land where the line between myth and reality is faintly drawn. More recently, Douyon has been joined in his search by Harvard Botanist E. Wade Davis. Next month Davis...
...list of holdouts grew smaller and smaller. Cuba, with no ready cash, dispatched its team on a boat loaded with sugar and tobacco; at each port of call, the cargo would be auctioned off to help defray expenses. Even Germany managed to outwit its future Fuhrer and sent 125 of its best young athletes...