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...Whatever the Hindu extremists say, there are no Islamic terrorists in Ahmadabad now?but there will be if the assaults on Muslims do not cease. Since Feb. 27, when a Muslim mob set fire to a train four hours away in Godhra, killing 59 Hindus, Qureishi's neighborhood of Shahpur has been under siege by Hindu rioters and the police. The official death toll for the state of Gujarat is approaching 900. Human-rights groups and Western governments put it at more than double that. What no one disputes is that the overwhelming majority of the dead are Muslims. More...
...past, conflict in India ebbed and flowed, with orgies of bloodletting erupting then subsiding. Now, at least in Gujarat, the hostility is relentless. The passageways through ancient city walls that used to link Shahpur to a Hindu neighborhood on the other side have been welded shut in a permanent divide. Armed with stones and petrol bombs, the young Muslims from Gujarat's camps and ghettos now look?and think?like their Palestinian counterparts. "Every man and woman here has a volcano in his or her heart," says Qureishi. "If defending our home is terrorism, then terrorism is starting here." Noting...
Foreigners are already doing well in Iran. In the southern town of Shahpur, one of the world's largest petrochemical plants, a $240 million venture involving the government and Allied Chemical Corp. as equal partners, went into operation last week. A $33 million caustic-soda plant was opened at Abadan last year; 74% of it is controlled by the government and 26% by B.F. Goodrich Co. At Kharg Island, a $45 million sulfur plant, built by Iran and a subsidiary of Indiana Standard Oil Co., recently began operations. Reynolds Metals Co. is putting up a $45 million aluminum plant...
...mill that the Russians will construct for Iran. Other crews tramped across the desert and through mountain passes driving stakes to mark the route for a $450 million pipeline that will carry natural gas 800 miles north from Iran's southern oilfields to the Russian border. At Bandar Shahpur, still others staked out the site for a $100 million petrochemical plant, owned jointly by Iran and the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. Around the clock, workmen were building two new ports on the Persian Gulf ($300 million), a state-owned refinery outside Teheran ($133 million) and, nearby...
Corporal Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...