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...another grim chapter in the 34-month-old war between Iran and Iraq. Regular troops and Islamic Guards from Iran penetrated six miles into Iraq last week, pursuing Kurdish rebels who had raided Iranian government outposts and seizing a small Iraqi garrison at the border. The Iranian attack was typical of the pattern of the war. Major cross-border assaults are followed by fierce counterattacks, followed by exaggerated casualty claims. But even allowing for customary hyperbole, the toll was high. Iran claimed that its forces had killed or wounded 3,800 Iraqis; Iraq took credit for 1,400 Iranian casualties...
...other action last week, the House was grim as it formally censured Republican Daniel Crane of Illinois and Democrat Gerry Studds of Massachusetts for sexual misconduct with 17-year-old congressional pages. The House Ethics Committee had recommended that the two be given only reprimands, the lightest possible punishment. But prodded by conservative Congressmen, the full House opted for a harsher penalty. Under censure, a lawmaker is stripped of any committee chairmanship; Studds lost his position as head of the subcommittee on the Coast Guard...
...large extent, the work he and other analysts did at Rand led to the adoption of the more refined nuclear war-fighting strategies currently in place. But the grim prospect of the unthinkable never diluted his evangelical optimism; during the past year he concentrated on selling his vision of a prosperous world future to schools and textbook publishers. "We've had 20 years of pessimism in this country," he said at a heated exchange at the Hudson Institute. "Being a realist today makes one an optimist...
...minds of most Americans, it does not really turn to summer until the Fourth of July. And in fact not all of the omens for the holiday were grim. San Diego was shaken by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded there (4.6 on the Richter scale), but only some vases and plumbing were broken. Neither the new lava flow from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano nor the tornadoes that swirled through eastern Iowa and northern Illinois killed anyone. Not good news, but not disasters either: if those were acts of God, at least he pulled his punches. -By Kurt Andersen...
...Grim details in five countries...