Iran Iraq water war reshapes Mesopotamian ecology
Satellite analysis highlights a 20 mile long multi channel sluice east of Basra. Iran and Iraq clash over Tigris Euphrates and Karun water, using massive channels to influence the gulf region. The ecological impact could rehydrate salt crusted lands while offering strategic advantage in the conflict.
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Tran
Iran
Iraq
Tigris-Euphrates
Gulf
Tually
Basra
Karun
Tigris
Euphrates
Karkheh
Fish Lake
Donald Kerr
International Institute of Strategic Studies
Ahwaz
Khorramshar
Euphrates-Tigris
Soviet Union Tests Direct Election on Factory Floor
Soviet TV aired a Riga factory election showing five candidates chosen by unions. Delegates selected a front runner, a warm technocrat won by a wide margin, and workers debated democratization while questions about leadership and turnout surfaced. In a second feature, Iran and Iraq extend water warfare plans near Basra with zigzag canals surveyed by satellites and likely to slow a final offensive.
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Moscow
Riga
Lenin
Komsomosskaya Pravda
Mexico PRI faces internal rifts over successor hint
Mexico City sources reveal dissidents within the Institutional Revolutionary Party criticize the leadership as the PRI confronts demands to openly name a presidential candidate. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo press for democracy while party veterans clash with President Miguel de la Madrid and Fidel Velazquez over the future of Mexico’s ruling coalition.
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Mexico
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
Cardenas
Democratic Current
Fidel Velazquez
Crusty
Velazquez
Jorge de la Vega
U.N
Porfirio Munoz Ledo
Revolutionary Family
de la Madrid
Miguel de la Madrid
Jose Lopez Portillo
Lopez Portillo
Luis Echeverria
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