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...incident occurred three days after heavy fighting had resumed between Iranian and Iraqi forces in a southern salient of Iran's oil-producing province of Khuzistan. Spurred on by a major military victory in late March in which they recovered a large chunk of the province, Iranian forces had launched a second offensive that they hoped would rout the Iraqis from Iranian territory, which had been invaded in September 1980. Hundreds of Iranian commandos were dropped by helicopter behind Iraqi artillery lines in an attempt to recapture the Iranian city of Khorramshahr on the strategic Shatt al Arab waterway...
Last month marked the tenth anniversary of the University's most recent student occupation and one of the most tumultuous fortnights in Harvard's history. The Mass Hall takeover--carried out by the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC)--and the Corporation move that precipitated it were only the most salient events in a period when banner headlines were the norm and vocal activism a way of life. Consider the following events, some related, others one-shot happenings emblematic of a turbulent...
Still, scarcely a salient public issue
...CAMPDAVID "framework for peace" of September 1978 ended the stalemate of intractable conflict. Israel surrendered the Sinai, including the Alma oil fields it had developed which would have provided economic security for a country faced with hostility on all sides. By handing back Sharm el-Sheikh and the Rafah salient, Israel also relinquished two key military assets. So fervent was the desire for peace, however, even the hero Dayan (then the foreign minister) assented to total withdrawal when he realized that Egypt would not countenance settlements such as Yamit in the Sinai...
...most salient characteristic of the referendum was actually what was missing. Except for a University funded publicity drive which produced leaflets and posters, there was little or no talk of the plan for a new government. Although the handful of students who had finalized the constitution and organized the referendum scattered among dining halls to ask people to vote, the talk was glib. "Too busy to vote?" and "It's Your Ass" condescended leaflets, and the minimal dialogue never delved into the constitution's substance. The result was an approving but wholly uninformed electorate. A Crimson poll...