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International reaction to the tragedy was swift. The U.S. provided six military helicopters and 2,000 tents and pledged an initial $1.5 million to a relief fund, while a welter of private charities set up funds of their own in American cities with large Italian immigrant populations. The European Community appropriated $2 million for disaster relief. Red Cross societies in at least nine countries, including Japan and South Korea, provided funds...
...WELTER WEIGHT...
Peking's huge central railway station is designed to handle 200,000 passengers a day, but even there the evening rush hour overcrowds every hall and stairway. One evening last week, in a welter of duffle bags and over-the-shoulder bundles, passengers hurrying to make the 6:30 to Hefei jostled against other travelers heading for the 6:40 to Fengtai. The four clocks outside the waiting-room doors said...
...participants, and for many of the bystanders as well, this welter of perishable alliances and far more durable antagonisms is fraught with risks. King Hussein has complicated his already strained relations with the various Palestinian guerrilla organizations by siding with Iraq against Iran. The Palestinian groups saw the late Shah as their own enemy because he maintained relations with, and supplied oil to Israel; they back Khomeini because he cut off the oil shipments to Israel and turned the official Israeli mission building in Tehran over to the P.L.O...
Throughout the week, the Iraqis poured reinforcements through the captured Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin into the crucial southern theater where Iran's major oil facilities are situated. In the welter of claim and counterclaim, for example, the Iraqi officers repeatedly said their forces were on the verge of capturing Khorramshahr. Tehran called that particular claim a "hallucination" and insisted instead that the Iraqis were being forced to withdraw, leaving behind 16 tanks and armored personnel carriers and abundant stocks of ammunition. The truth, as foreign observers were able to establish at the scene, appeared...