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...sides launched aerial and missile attacks on each other's cities. In a gesture that some observers interpreted as a sign of President Saddam Hussein's rising desperation, Iraqi warplanes repeatedly raided the Iranian holy city of Qum, a campaign calculated to infuriate the aging and increasingly frail ruler of the Islamic Republic. Reports continued to circulate in the West last week that Khomeini, 86, has been confined to bed for the past month and is extremely ill, perhaps near death...
...outcome of the allegorical battle seemed pre-scripted, if not predestined. Marcos, who had once been an effective and even popular ruler, in recent years had gradually proved brilliant enough to rewrite the rules and brutal enough to enforce them. On election day in February, in full view of more than 700 foreign journalists, Marcos' men ripped up ballots, bought others and intimidated voters at gunpoint. As many as 3 million names were simply struck off the voter lists...
...government sources, speaking on condition they not be identified, confirmed a report in The Los Angeles Times on Saturday that the ruler of oil-rich Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, agreed to give millions of dollars to the Contras in Central America...
...sources did not know whether the ruler intended his money to go for medical supplies and other humanitarian aid or for weapons for the Contras...
...Chou En-lai came in 1920, some 70 years after Karl Marx left Paris for London and eight years after a young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...