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Iraq's thrust into Iran came to a stuttering halt last week as both sides dug in and a rocking, punishing kind of stalemate set in. The enemies exchanged thundering barrages of artillery across the Shatt al Arab estuary. Iraqi infantrymen intent on consolidating their sliver of captured Iranian territory took heavy losses in hand-to-hand fighting for possession of three key towns and a vital port installation. Iranian Phantom fighter-bombers streaked low under the radar in deep penetration raids all the way to the enemy capital of Baghdad. Beneath the orange fireballs and black smoke gushing...
...report urges that colleges try harder to bring order and coherence to of ten chaotic undergraduate curriculums. But its main thrust is at elementary and secondary education. Federal programs for educating the disadvantaged and for teaching basic skills now total more than $3.5 billion, and the commissioners fear that by seeking only a "bare minimum of literacy," such programs undermine the broader, if less measurable, task of teaching students how to think. The report urges that "critical thinking" be viewed as a basic skill and be so defined by the U.S. Department of Education...
Lanzillo had the crowd of 100 buzzing againt at 21:37 of the second half, heading a Duggan corner kick into the twines. That made two goals for the year, and thrust him up among the team leaders in that department. Following the game, Lanzillo waxed modestly about his two-goal performance. "The balls were there, and I was in the same place...It's just nice to score...
...allies can still head off disaster. "The area I once called the arc of crisis [the northern and western rim of the Indian Ocean] may well be the focus of our major effort in the 1980s to enhance geopolitical stability," Brzezinski says. "Between 1945 and 1955, the major thrust was in Western Europe and the Far East. From 1955 on, it was in assuring overall strategic stability vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. It is very likely that in the 1980s we will be involved in an unprecedented effort to assure stability, and therefore exercise deterrence, in the Persian Gulf...
...dealing with four possible emergencies. Three are based on the Afghanistan experience-"invitations" to Moscow by secessionist Azerbaijanis in northwestern Iran, or by Baluchis in southeastern Iran, or by an embattled leftist government in Tehran that eventually might take over from the mullahs. The fourth possibility is a Soviet thrust into Pakistan, under the pretext of hot pursuit of Afghan rebels. In each case, the U.S. would have to contend with an overwhelming Soviet advantage: geographical proximity. "When you talk about projecting combat power 7,000 miles and then sustaining it over the long haul," says Kelley, "it boggles...