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...last week's diplomatic maneuvering was no more than a side issue compared to the vicious immediacy of the fighting. By choosing to invade Port San Carlos on the narrow Falkland Sound, the British had taken a considerable risk. Only 15 miles wide near Port San Carlos, the waterway gave the British fleet little maneuvering room against air attack. That problem was compounded by the fundamental weakness of the task force: its lack of adequate air cover and of an early-warning system like the U.S. AWACS aircraft. With only 36 Harrier jets aboard the armada's aircraft carriers, Hermes...
...launched a second offensive that they hoped would rout the Iraqis from Iranian territory, which had been invaded in September 1980. Hundreds of Iranian commandos were dropped by helicopter behind Iraqi artillery lines in an attempt to recapture the Iranian city of Khorramshahr on the strategic Shatt al Arab waterway. Throughout the week, bloody battles raged near the city, where Iraq's armed forces had instructions to fight to the last man. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. At week's end Iran claimed to have won a major victory as Iraq ordered its forces to new positions near...
...rushed to Baghdad for consultations after the Iranian victory, as did Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan. Iranian officials insist that they have no plans to attack Iraq, but they do want compensation for war losses and an unconditional retreat to the previous border along the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway...
...second year last week, causing at least 50 casualties a day on each side. In all, more than 10,000 Iranians and roughly the same number of Iraqis have died since the Iraqis attacked on Sept. 22, 1980. Their aim: to seize the strategic Shatt al Arab estuary, a waterway long disputed by the two neighboring countries that runs into the Persian Gulf. The Iraqis failed in this objective and everyone has suffered. Now the Shatt al Arab is useless to both countries; some 70 ships have been trapped in the waters by the fighting. As one Iranian diplomat sums...
...most stable countries in troubled Central America. The economy was healthy, thanks largely to its canal revenues and free trade zone. In 1977 Torrijos scored his most notable triumph when he renegotiated the Panama Canal treaties with the U.S. to give his country full control over the 51-mile waterway by the year...