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...Friday, at about the time Ariel Sharon was telling an audience in Tel Aviv that "the mark of Cain" had been planted on his forehead by the week's events, several thousand Israelis attended the funeral, in the port city of Haifa, of Emil Eliyahu Greenzweig, 33, the victim of the grenade attack of the previous evening. Professor Elkana Yehuda spoke of Greenzweig, who had recently received a master's degree in philosophy and mathematics from Hebrew University, as "a symbol of love and tolerance." Yehuda expressed his hope that the current national debate would not lead to "the destruction...
...Iranian offensive, the fourth launched by Tehran since last July, was apparently aimed at the Iraqi city of Al Amarah. Seizure of the town would enable Iran to intercept supply and troop movements between Baghdad, the capital, and the southern port city of Basra. By midweek, Tehran Radio was claiming that advancing forces had "liberated" 120 sq. mi. of Iranian territory from Iraqi forces since the attack began. An Iraqi military spokesman was contending that the attackers did not gain "one inch of Iraqi territory...
...refugees waved and cheered from overcrowded trucks; thousands of them stampeded joyfully down the gangways of rusty ships docked at Ghana's port of Tema. They were home after an often brutal fortnight spent in flight from Nigeria, more than 200 miles to the east. Along with workers from other nearby countries, the Ghanaians had been made scapegoats for Nigeria's formidable economic problems, and last month the Nigerian authorities gave them just two weeks to leave the country. Terrorized by fear of reprisals if they stayed, more than 500,000 Ghanaians braved beatings, bureaucratic delays and dwindling...
...packing the docks in Lagos the day after the expulsion order. By the time the first ship arrived, more than 30,000 people were waiting on the quays. In the scramble to get aboard, several plunged into the harbor; at least one drowned. "It was crazy," said a Nigerian port official. "Fights broke out, and the police had a hard job controlling the crowd." Those who missed the first ship camped out amid gathering piles of garbage, grateful for the harmattan, a breeze of Saharan dust that blotted out the sun and kept temperatures down from the usual...
BORN. To Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 31, portly President for Life of Haiti, and Michele Bennett Duvalier, 31: their first child, a son and heir apparent to the dictatorship set up by his grandfather Papa Doc; in Port-au-Prince. Name: François Nicolas Jean-Claude. Weight...