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...drawn into this bloody conflict between two angry neighbors. That nightmare is slipping toward reality. Iran and Iraq last week continued to savage each other with bombing, missile and artillery strikes, and there were brutal battles for control of the Iranian port of Khorramshahr on the Shatt al Arab waterway (see map). Meanwhile, other states of the Middle East were ominously choosing up sides. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: Choosing Up Sides | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Still, there could be no denying that Iraq was in control of a 30-mile swatch of Iranian territory east of the Shatt al Arab, the 120-mile-long border waterway that empties into the Persian Gulf. There, on the ground, the rival forces were locked in battle at four critical locations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: The Blitz Bogs Down | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...journey began with a brief ferry trip across the Shatt waterway, then a hired taxi to Khorramshahr. Crossing a flat, dusty plain, laden with mud-camouflaged military vehicles, our party reached the Iraq-Iran border post of Shalamche. There, eight miles from Khorramshahr, dozens of 130mm artillery guns were hunkered down in a vast arc, pelting the Iranian-held port with booming shells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Road to Khorramshahr | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...frontier agreement during an OPEC summit in Algiers. The centerpiece of the accord was a change in the status of the Shatt al Arab, long a source of friction between the two nations. Under the Algiers agreement, the border was moved from the Iranian side of the disputed waterway to the middle of the estuary; in return, the Shah agreed to stop his support for Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq who had been battling the Baghdad government with increasing success. According to the Iraqis, the Shah also promised to return a parcel of disputed territory around Musian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Persian Gulf | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Brown knows his subject. As a reporter for the Niagara Gazette, he broke the story of the Love Canal disaster, revealing how chemicals buried in an abandoned waterway were leaking into homes and were suspected of causing health problems, from respiratory and liver ailments to birth defects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Explosion of a Toxic Time Bomb | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

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