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Thus ended the decisive battle of a gruesome war that has already cost the two adversaries an estimated 100,000 lives and $150 billion. But even though Iraq's forces have retreated almost to the prewar border (see map), the guns along the Shatt al Arab are not about to fall silent. Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, in pursuit of his vendetta against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has threatened to invade Iraq in an effort to topple...
...that he was right after all - as preludes to the end of history itself, the millennium. What distinguished him from other mystagogic nuts, however, was his talent as an artist. On the evidence of this show, he was far and away the most gifted painter of his generation in prewar Munich. Even his student drawings of the nude have a wiry and controlled strength in their ink-brushed line. Others might, and did, imitate Monet, or Beardsley, or Seurat, or the bright, flat patterns of "primitive" Austrian folk art; only Kandinsky could bring such diverse strands successfully together...
...mane and mustache, arrives in Stockholm on Dec. 10 to claim the $180,000 award, he will precisely fit the Swedish Academy's taste in laureates. Canetti's sensibilities, like those of last year's winner, Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz, are survivors of Europe's prewar culture. A poly lingual resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably obscure. He was praised by Thomas Mann and a host of lesser literati as a son of Kafka and a father of Ionesco, and seven of his books are avail able...
...fighting continues to take an enormous economic toll. Iraqi oil production has dropped to an estimated 900,000 bbl. per day, one-third of prewar levels, as Iranian jets have bombed storage and production sites. Iran is now pumping only about 1 million bbl., down from an average of 1.6 million bbl. per day just before...
...came. Business was rotten. Old Elihu didn't care whether he shut down for a while or not. He tore up the agreements he had made with his men and began kicking them back into their prewar circumstances. Of course they yelled for help. They struck...