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...records and promise to focus on pocketbook issues in the Senate. Standing in a drizzle in downtown St. Petersburg last week, Gunter told an elderly crowd that he would fight for improvements in Medicare and for banning all mandatory retirement. The next day, Hawkins, campaigning in brilliant sunshine in Port Saint Joe, promised to seek a Senate investigation to determine whether, as she suspects, the U.S. has sufficient oil reserves for the next 300 years...
Meanwhile Iran and Iraq were slugging it out like determined but weary boxers, unable to land a knockout punch but also unwilling to call it quits. As it had for weeks, the struggle raged over control of the crucial Shatt al Arab waterway. After pummeling the ancient port city of Khorramshahr, the Iraqis laid siege to the Iranian refinery center of Abadan. The Iraqi advance was slowed by the fierce resistance of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, an Islamic militia passionately supportive of the ideals and fulminations of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Meanwhile, the surprisingly effective Iranian air force hit back...
King Hussein has been providing the Iraqis with more than just moral support and an overland resupply route from the Jordanian port of Aqaba on the Red Sea. TIME has learned that he has also secretly sent antiaircraft weapons to Iraq to help against the Iranian air force...
...East represents at least as many risks as opportunities. The Soviet Union's principal move was to sign a 20-year friendship treaty with Syria two weeks ago. Israeli officials, TIME has learned, believe that the pact includes a secret annex granting the U.S.S.R. naval facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia, airbases manned by Soviet personnel, and depots for storing war materiel. If this intelligence is correct, the Soviets may have added a pawn or two to their side of the board in the chess game they are playing with the U.S. in the area. The U.S. earlier this...
...military equipment reaching Iraq arrives first at the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba. TIME'S Robert Slater last week took a helicopter tour of the area and saw dramatic evidence of that resupply in action: "Normally Aqaba is a sleepy port town, one that has always lagged far behind the nearby Israeli resort of Eilat in tourist traffic as well as commerce...