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...Maqassed Hospital is a real hospital. Two hundred have died there since the bombing began. Twelve-year-old Houda had her stomach slit open by shrapnel, but she feels well now and smiles to show it. She does not know what this war is about. Mahmoud, also 12, had his forehead burned by a phosphorous bomb. His black hair sticks up in points. He says that God will take revenge...
...Saudis were furious at the set back, but they will continue to pursue their peace initiative. Says P.L.O. Spokes man Mahmoud Labadi: "Prince Fahd and King Hassan were personally hurt, and I doubt if the plan will be brought up at an other summit, but it is not dead...
...fundamentalist challenge is dangerous for Khomeini, particularly because his right-wing critics can outdo him in blind radicalism and rabble-rousing. An outstanding example of the obscure but dangerous figures growing angry with him is Sheikh Mahmoud Halabi, seventyish leader of a Shi'ite purist society. Halabi, says one Iranian writer, "is so right wing that compared with him, Khomeini is Karl Marx." Halabi criticizes the I.R.P. for its political accommodation with the Tudeh Party, Iran's pro-Moscow Communists. (The arrangement is designed to counter opposition from left-wing Muslims.) And he calls for a program against...
...entire mission was the fact that the C-130s were heading for a remote spot in the desert that the Iranians had feared might some day be used by U.S. forces. Indeed, they even had a map of the spot. It was discovered in the papers of Mahmoud Jaafarian, a pro-Shah counterinsurgency strategist who was executed after the revolution a year ago. Jaafarian was actually trying to burn the map when he was seized by the revolutionaries. Jaafarian told his captors that the staging site had been secretly built by the CIA, with the Shah's knowledge, for possible...
...denials, for instance, there were persistent reports that Karmal's Vice President, Sultan Ali Kishtmand, had perhaps died in Moscow, where he was supposedly flown for medical treatment following a Shootout among members of the Revolutionary Council. Another rumor, that Karmal's own younger brother and adviser Mahmoud Baryalai, had also died of bullet wounds, was squelched only after he popped up on Soviet television with assurances that "I am alive and well...