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In preparation for the long rainy season that begins this month, the Iraqis continued construction of an all-weather military road linking Khuzistan's provincial capital of Ahwaz with the outskirts of Basra on the Shatt al Arab estuary. The Iraqis were also proceeding toward one of their key...
THE VICE PREMIER. "I myself have made revolution my whole life, and I am continuing to make revolution." So said Vice Premier Wan Li, 64, at the beginning of an hourlong meeting in Peking's Great Hall of the People. Wan, a tall, affable, silver-haired man, is widely...
The most nettlesome amendment that Trudeau has in mind for the constitution is a U.S.-style "Charter of Rights" that would take precedence over any bills of rights enacted by the individual provinces. Among other freedoms, the charter would guarantee minority-language education. In Canada, education is almost entirely a...
David Susskind, television producer: "Carter is incompetent, arrogant, insulated, provincial and unknowing. He is a pious fraud. The pietistic humbug is intolerable."
Radio Tehran contested the Iraqi claims, insisting that Revolutionary Guards still held key quarters of Khorramshahr. But Iran admitted that the major refinery city of Abadan, ten miles to the south, had been totally surrounded by Iraqi forces seeking to starve out its last defenders. The Iraqis reportedly blew up...