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...refugee camps and emergency feeding centers. Almost from his doorstep, Idriss could see trucks and aircraft ferrying in some of the thousands of tons of foreign relief supplies that are now flowing into the country every day. Yet he preferred to shepherd his family for 23 days across mountainous wasteland to the relief camp of Tekl el Bab, the newest of three centers that have sprung up near the Sudanese town of Kassala, 20 miles from the Ethiopian border...
Iran last week announced an offensive against Iraq in the flat wasteland to the east of Baghdad. Iraq announced that the invaders had been driven back. Whatever the real out come, the battle marked a resumption of a ground war that had been stalled since last February. Nonetheless, the encounter did not seem to be the "final offensive" that Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has been threatening to launch for the past eight months...
Roiled since 1982 by prodigious storms, the 30-mile-wide Great Salt Lake has risen 10 ft., its fastest climb ever, overspilling its borders and flooding the land around it. What was once the driest state in the union after Nevada is fast becoming a water wasteland: tens of millions of dollars' worth of property has been destroyed, wildlife has diminished catastrophically, and tourism around the lake has bottomed out. Says Utah Governor Scott Matheson, with tragicomic wit: "It's a helluva way to run a desert...
...Iraqi officer. "They cannot take our land." For miles behind the Iraqi lines, tanks, armored personnel carriers and heavy artillery were dug into the brown-gray sand. Iraqi forces seemed to be well supplied. "The Iranians attacked in waves," said the Iraqi commander near a place in the wasteland called Al Azarh, "but they had no chance...
...Working toward nothing, the former leaders got rid of most left-wing terrorism in Argentina, but in terms of a stable government or a content citizenry, they achieved nothing. Perhaps they are most comfortable in the presence of nothing. Perhaps their wish from the start was to survey a wasteland from atop a reviewing stand, exquisitely alone in a world where everyone else has disappeared...