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Most of the Cubans had a common destination: Fort Chaffee, Ark., where the Carter Administration has decided to consolidate some 10,000 refugees who arrived during the 159-day boatlift and have not yet been settled. The boatlift ended two weeks ago, when Cuban President Fidel Castro closed the port of Mariel. Altogether, 125,262 Cuban men, women and children fled to the U.S. during the boatlift. Most of them quickly began new lives with the help of relatives already in the U.S. and private sponsors. The remainder are chiefly young men with little English or job skills-and little...
...rocking, punishing kind of stalemate set in. The enemies exchanged thundering barrages of artillery across the Shatt al Arab estuary. Iraqi infantrymen intent on consolidating their sliver of captured Iranian territory took heavy losses in hand-to-hand fighting for possession of three key towns and a vital port installation. Iranian Phantom fighter-bombers streaked low under the radar in deep penetration raids all the way to the enemy capital of Baghdad. Beneath the orange fireballs and black smoke gushing from bombarded storage tanks, the oil refining and shipping facilities of both countries suffered such severe damage that years...
...though in revenge for the Iraqi bombing of Kharg Island, Iran's main outlet for oil, the week before, the Iranians also launched repeated bombing raids against the refineries of Basra, the pumping stations around Kirkuk and Mosul, and the oil port of Fao at the mouth of Shatt al Arab. Tehran even sent a few of its sophisticated U.S.-made F-14s into the war; they were flown sparingly, but according to Iranian reports their Phoenix air-to-air missiles succeeded in downing more than a dozen Iraqi...
Despite the shrill peal of air-raid sirens regularly echoing throughout the port of Basra early last week, the absence of air strikes for four days had nurtured a languid mood among the Iraqi soldiers and civilians in the town. Troops from the front lines recounted boastful tales of Iranians fleeing before their artillery barrages, while the television pumped out scenes of Iraqi attacks to martial music and announced the claim that Ahwaz, 45 miles into Iran, had just been captured. "Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day," boasted Captain Abu Rashid, beaming proudly in his black beret and crisp green...
...noon, the windowpanes in the Shatt al Arab Hotel were blasted by a concussive boom. As explosion after explosion followed, everyone in the lobby dived to the floor or huddled next to pillars for protection from the surprise raid by two Iranian Phantoms skimming 100 yds. above the port. In less than a minute it was over. We poured outside and crossed a rickety wooden bridge to view the damage: just 300 yds. away on Sinbad Island, bright orange flames and thick black smoke curled from a coastal dredging vessel that had been nearly cut in half by a direct...