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...seven weeks, TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis was stationed in Iraq, reporting on the war with Iran and studying the mood of the nation as it fought to stave off the furious offensive launched by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Shortly after leaving last week for Amman, the Jordanian capital, Brelis filed his impressions of embattled Iraq...
...past few weeks, Americans have been asking themselves some urgent and difficult questions about the ugly civil war in El Salvador. Will the latest guerrilla offensive succeed in disrupting and discrediting the elections scheduled for next month? Will the beleaguered civilian President, José Napoleon Duarte, be able to stave off the leftist challenge? Can he also rein in the right-wing military leaders with whom he shares what remains of central power-and therefore with whom he shares responsibility for atrocities committed by the security forces? And what can the U.S. do? Can it simultaneously foster land reform...
...much stronger and when practice began last October, second-year coach Vicki Hays was probably not as worried as her predecessors. But now, with the season almost over, the team has dropped close meets to two of the fearsome triad, Brown and Princeton. Today they will try and stave off that all-too-common sweep, as they travel to New Haven to face the last of the league's triple swimming threat, the 8-2 Bulldogs...
...party, but were not directly involved in Jaruzelski's crackdown. As Eagleburger quickly learned, the Western Europeans were not yet prepared to take concerted action against Poland, though European bankers did decide last week not to lend Poland the additional $350 million it had requested in an effort to stave off bankruptcy...
...Jaruzelski's view, there was little choice but to impose martial law; he had to bring a halt to Solidarity's increasing demands. If the government failed to do so, he could see no way to stave off the final collapse of Poland's mismanaged, strike-hobbled economy. At the same time, he had to reassure the Soviets, who, no matter how reluctant they might be to intervene directly in Polish affairs, let it be known that they would do so if Solidarity was on the verge of seizing control of the state. Yet, by moving so forcefully against...