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...tension in Baghdad (pop. 4 million) increased sharply as the week passed, affecting the holiday mood of the Id al Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. The city's international airport was temporarily closed to civilian traffic for the first time since the war began in September 1980. Several Western embassies drew up emergency evacuation plans for getting their citizens to Jordan by overland routes. They remembered all too well that the staff of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, who supposedly enjoyed diplomatic immunity, spent 14 months as prisoners of the Iranian zealots now attacking Iraq...
...Muslim feast day of Id al Fitr, marking the end of the monthlong Ramadan fast. As the first light of day fell over West Beirut, families gathered in the city's cemeteries to mourn their dead. Some people quietly prayed and read the Koran beside older graves marked by marble slabs and beribboned arbors. Others wept beside the many fresh mounds of dirt, marked only by cinder blocks. Near by lay picks and shovels left by gravediggers the evening before. As a heavyset middle-aged woman dropped leafy sprigs on three fresh graves, she became hysterical and collapsed into...
...mourning of Id al Fitr is traditionally followed by the exchange of sweetmeats, and festive family gatherings. But as the Israeli siege of Beirut went into its sixth week, the mood was tense and somber. In the first aerial bombardment in more than a month, Israeli warplanes three times last week conducted dive-bombing raids against predominantly Muslim West Beirut, where some 6,000 P.L.O. commandos have been sealed off, along with 500,000 residents. The main Israeli targets were P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat's headquarters, located in the Fakhani neighborhood south of the center of the city...
Noting that the United States has 16 times more lawyers per capita than Japan, a leading Japanese businessman last night said that suspicion and excessive emphasis on cautious decisions id hampering business performance in this country...
...problem, Chafin said, is preventing the initial theft that gives a criminal an identification card and access to the facilities "They steal wallets containing an ID and they keep them and come back on campus and flash them," he said...