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It was yet 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...
It was almost midday, and a score of Arab students had gathered for lunch in a rocky field behind the Islamic College at Hebron, a city of 70,000 in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Suddenly two gunmen, their faces masked by checked red-and-white Arab kaffiyehs, darted through...
Sheik Isa's main worry centers on a religious schism within his people. The royal family, along with most of the nation's decision makers, are Sunni Muslims, but some 60% of the country, including most of the poor, belong to the Shi'ite branch of Islam...
Whatever its wider aims, the offensive failed to squelch the guerrillas, who number anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000. Bolstered by their religious zeal-and, more practically, by a flow of arms and supplies from abroad-they are grimly determined to rid their homeland of the hated invader. "The...
Most did not come to forge a better life, exactly, but to avoid death by Islamic firing squad. Ghassem Tehrani, who is editor of an Iranian community newspaper, could not find work in Paris or London. He is unhappy in L.A. "You are too much money-minded here. All of...