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...Persian Nights shows why. Author Diane Johnson's sixth novel transports a handful of Americans into Iran during the summer of 1978. These remarkably ordinary visitors have no way of knowing they have jetted into a maelstrom, a seething revolution that will soon topple the Shah, rearrange the balances of power and terror in the Middle East and seriously frazzle two successive American presidencies. But in hindsight from 1987, when all of this is known, anyone who was in Iran then, even only in make-believe, can be made to seem interesting...
MANAMA, Bahrain--Iraqi jets and an Iranian warship launched fiery attacks on Persian Gulf shipping yesterday, seemingly undaunted by the growing armada of foreign warships in the gulf...
...French and British ships are part of an international flotilla building up inside and outside the Persian Gulf that totals about 80 vessels--the largest such naval gathering since the Korean War. About six Soviet warships are also in the area...
...10th convoy since U.S. warships began escorting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers 21/2 months ago resumed its voyage down the Persian Gulf yesterday...
...Iranian army has made small gains south of Fish Lake, a 120- sq.-mi. area flooded by the Iraqis as a defensive barrier. Iran has also made incremental progress southeast of Basra in the marshy terrain along the Shatt al Arab, a strategic waterway that affords access to the Persian Gulf. The new toehold has enabled the Iranians to bombard Basra from closer range...