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Recent disclosures of Iranian efforts to make clandestine purchases of American weaponry and spare parts demonstrate that Iran's condemnation of the U.S. does not prevent it from coveting American technology. These covert attempts to secure what Iran's bellicose anti-Western policies prevent it from obtaining openly suggest one of the Islamic Republic's long-term weaknesses. Unlike the Shah, who tried to open up Iran to the West and turn it into an industrial power, Khomeini has turned the country back on itself. Science and technology are neither condemned nor encouraged. Admissions to the University of Tehran...
...head of an Islamic state, King Hassan II of Morocco, to deliver an unprecedented speech to 60,000 Muslim youths gathered in Casablanca for the Pan-Islamic Games. The Pontiff hoped that this appearance would encourage the forces of toleration within Islam, and that his latest tour would help prevent the militant brand of the rival faith from spreading in black Africa, where so much of Christianity's future hope lies. --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof with the Pope and Joseph Ngala/Nairobi
...Reagan. For the first time, the Soviets had agreed to call for substantial cuts in offensive weapons without simultaneously insisting on a ban on Star Wars. Indeed, SDI was barely alluded to in the joint statement. The aim of the arms-control negotiations, it declared, should be "to prevent an arms race in space and to terminate it on earth." The words were the exact ones first used last January by Shultz and former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (who was left back home in Moscow) to paper over the sharp differences between the U.S. and Soviet positions on space...
Health workers administered about 80,000 doses of tetanus and typhoid vaccines. By the end of last week soldiers had set fire to piles of bodies and shot stray dogs and pigs to prevent the spread of disease. They arrested looters and bandits, but their actions often came too late. By the time the military arrived at the scene on Nov. 17, said one official, "just about all of the houses unaffected by the avalanche had been sacked...
...college campuses, the Star Wars debate is turning into a high-tech version of the 1960s protests over weapons development and classified research. A group called United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War has circulated a petition asking scientists not to accept any Government funds for SDI research. Some 2,100 have signed the pledge, many from Cornell, Caltech and M.I.T. They contend that Star Wars research is high-tech hocus-pocus that will escalate the arms race. Some scientists suggest that because the protest has been centered at elite universities, SDI research is being done at less prestigious places. Huffs...