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...they had not used poison gas and that the charges had been concocted by the Iranians to excuse their battlefield defeats. The Iraqis continued to deny the charge, though they did not rule out the possible use of chemical warfare in the future. Said Major General Sabah al Fakhri, commander of Iraqi forces east of the Tigris River: "If a superpower threatened the U.S., what would it do? We too have our dignity and honor. We are not going to meet the invader with flowers and perfume. We are going to use all available means at our disposal to defend...
...first to sign up for the interviews posted at the career center every Monday morning. Grouses Senior Patricia Smith: "Companies sometimes wind up talking not to the most qualified candidates but to the earliest risers." Indeed, many college placement offices have begun to look like a cross between command headquarters and central casting, with their data banks on FORTUNE 500 companies and sophisticated videotaping facilities for mock interviews...
...prices of spot oil and metals and put pressure on the cost of insurance for tankers. Then Iran declared that no attack had taken place, and U.S. reconnaissance photographs appeared to back up the denial. In a startling communiqué at week's end, the Iraqi military command admitted that it had not struck Kharg Island after all. But, it said, it had hit tankers and other ships in the area. Most diplomats concluded that Saddam Hussein had announced the phantom attack in a desperate warning to the West that Iran must not be allowed to defeat Iraq...
Kangaroo, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is a masterly example of the Russian mode of skaz, or first-person narrative in the vernacular rather than in literary language. Aleshkovsky, who tells his manic tale in the voice of the crook, displays a phenomenal command of police, prison and underworld slang, as well as Russian obscenity. The writer is currently at work on a novel about a Soviet exile in the U.S. Its hero is a small-time Soviet Casanova who ceaselessly roams the country in a rented car in search of love and lust. He finds both...
...been nervous since I ordered those plane tickets to Canada right after Haig said he was ready to take command...