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Southeast Asia, though, as it has for so long, endured a year of war, cruelty and famine. Peking and Moscow jockeyed for influence in the area. China briefly invaded Viet Nam and then withdrew, achieving nothing but proving once again that Communists have their own explosive quarrels. Hanoi's Soviet-backed rulers expelled hundreds of thousands of its ethnic Chinese citizens, many of whom drowned at sea; survivors landed on the shores of nations that could not handle such onslaughts of refugees. In Cambodia, the Vietnamese-backed regime of Heng Samrin was proving little better than the maniacal Chinese-supported...
...Khomeini withdrew to the holy city of Qum, appointed a government headed by Mehdi Bazargan, an engineer by training and veteran of Mossadegh's Cabinet, and announced that he would confine his own role during "the one or two years left to me" to making sure that Iran followed "in the image of Muhammad." It quickly became apparent that real power resided in the revolutionary komitehs that sprang up all over the country, and the komitehs took orders only from the 15-man Revolutionary Council headed by Khomeini (the names of its other members were long kept secret). Bazargan...
Tenants in University-owned apartments at 7 Sumner Rd. who charged in December that Harvard was illegally renovating the building last week withdrew those charges...
...week, local air force and army units joined in a huge demonstration in favor of Sharietmadari in Tabriz (pop. 500,000), capital of East Azerbaijan province. In addition, Iraqi forces firing heavy artillery attacked an Iranian border post; Tehran Radio said several people were killed before the Iraqis withdrew...
Seeing that his chances were slim, Daley suddenly withdrew from the contest and said he would run on his own in the Democratic primary for state's attorney, which means he will be battling his father's own machine. The primary winner will face the Republican incumbent, Bernard Carey, 44, who leads in the polls. But should Burke manage to become state's attorney, the story could take a fascinating twist. For Chicago pols figure that Burke is ambitious enough to challenge Byrne herself in the 1983 mayoralty race. That could be a calamity for Jane...