Show Logan Utah Sunday November 28 1982 The Herald Journal — 1 1 Conflict began as Persia vs Mesopotamia JoyAschenbach minority in the Persian Gulf states had refused to recognize the line of succession from the Prophet followed by the traditional Sunnis Believing in WASHINGTON side Sitting by side on the Persian Gulf Iran their own leadership — and Iraq may be neighbors but descendants of All the they’ve hardly ever been Prophet’s cousin and — they broke away irrevocably friends They have been fighting for when All's son Husain was slain nearly two years — this time near Karbala on what is now And they share a tangled and Iraqi soil But even beofre that Arabian-Persia- n bloody history of conflict that battle lines were drawn more back a than thousand goes In 637 the Arabs who had swept years moved Long known as Persia Iran is across Mesopotamia the world center east to defeat the Persians at of Shiite Moslems and a Qadisihay on the banks of the religiously ruled Islamic Euphrates River first bringing to Persia republic Once ancient Islam By the beginning of the 16th Mesopotamia Iraq is Arab and controlled by Sunni Moslems century the smaller Shiite sect though more than half of its had become the established people are 'Shiites It has a religion in Persia Meanwhile the Ottoman Turks conquered secular socialist government h Both are rivals Mesopotamia and Sunni Islam struggling for control of the triumphed in what is now Iraq Safavid strategic Shatt al Arab Persia’s strong the Iraqi waterway which separates them dynasty recaptured and ultimately for dominance in territory in 1623 killing thousands and destroying Sunni the Persian Gulf But the Turks mosques massacring Shiites took back HaHghm snd Politics By National Geographic News Service - son-in-la- w Indo-Europe- an rivers meet and flow to the Persian Gulf is critical to both countries Running between their richest oil regions it is Iraq's only outlet to the Gulf and Iran's only sea access for its huge oil refinery at Abadan Contending that the terms of the 1937 treaty were imposed by Britain Iran never gave up its claim to half of the waterway Finally in 1975 Iraq weary from doing battle with its 25 holy shrines to regain what they lost in 1638 led Iranian leaders to Invade Iraq in July" Hurewits said They are driven by a fundamentalist religious fervor to unite all Shiites Most of the Islamic world's Shiites live in Iran and Iraq With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I Iraq was put under British protection In 1932 it became independent and in 1935 Persia changed its name to Iran (called Arablstan by the Iraqis) whose people are predominantly Arab Algiers Accord Canceled But by 1980 the tables were turned The Shah who had turned Iran into a modern westernized power in the Gulf had been toppled and the million rebellious Kurds was willing to give in At a meeting in Algiers Iraq's Saddam Hussein agreed to shift the Shatt boundary in exchange for the Shah of Iran's promise to b stop supporting the Kurds tribesmen living in the mountains of northern Iraq Iraq also agreed to withdraw its claim to Iran’s prime oil producing province of Khuzistan The two modern states attemtping to end old border disputes entered into a treaty in 1937 It placed the entire stretch of the key Shatt al Arab waterway inside Iraq Iran which wanted the Shatt split down the middle won shipping rights on its waters Control of the waterway where the Tigris and Euphrates 65-mi- le religious forces of the Shiite Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Komeinl had taken over Capitalizing on the chaotic Iranian situation and fearing that its revolutionary spirit could spread to Iraq’s Shiites President Saddam Hussein the unilaterally canceled Algiers agreement made with the Shah Merry Christmas from these Downtown Stores : non-Ara- oil-ric- OR THAT SPECIAL GIFT OPEN EVERY NIGHT 'TIL 9:00 (except Saturday's) OFFERING YOU 10 OFF IN EACH STORE ON ALL ITEAAS BETWEEN 6:00 and 9:00 Nov 29 thru Dec 10 Crow pon and pandl Mt giva acclaimad Cron quality Lifetime mechanical guarantee of course A land in 1638 and successfully defended it until 1817 A treaty in 1639 between the Ottoman Turks and the Persians roughly set the boundaries of the two domains Some of the most sacred Shiite shrine cities — holding the tombs of All and his University's Middle East son — woundis up across the Institute “That’s the start of the border in what now Iraq Shiite movement that split Islam in two” k Fervor The Shiites who today are often an oppressed but feared “The desire to repossess these Ancient religious animosity and modern power politics How did it begin? “With the martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson in 680" according to Dr JC Hurewiti director of Columbia SINCE 1B46 70itkiH6OH and Sou 6 149 N Main Downtown Pan-Islam- 752-413- ALSO 1 1 3 04alnJjHdgHanquar52-4033- Needham's Toyland will be open at 7 North Main 'til 9 pm s Cancer enemy IS US NEW YORK (UPI) — A bearded scientist who had Just received an Albert Lasker Medical Research award made a chilling announcement the other day when he stood before dozens of the nation's leading scientists health care leaders -- W and legislators Dr J Michael Bishop of the University of California San Francisco talked about tumor viruses telling distinguished n guests : “The (cancer) enemy has been found — it is part of us — award-luncheo- and we have to begun understand the lines of its attack” Harold E n of Varmus also Francisco were honored for that oncogenes — showing for our glittering gift wrap free with your $5 purchase is Bishop and Dr UC-Sa- our strolling carolers and costumed characters is for rejoicing with is for the excitement of Breakfast an annual event with Santa i ’ Pi genes — are cancer-causin- g found in every tom of animal from fish to human But they only become dangerous when captured by a particular virus or when these cancer genes become activated as might occur by exposure to some The oncogenes knows V'il 's! I’- cancer-causin- g carcinogen I : f -: science now have persisted is throughout evolution It believed that they have some important function perhaps the regulation of growth during fetal life Scientists believe it may be possible that the knowledge about oncogenes may lead to a new understanding of the susceptibility of cells to cancerous transformation by environmental hormonal or other factors Bishop put all this in better focus in his “enemy is us” speech — “None but the foolish is for our extended hours 9 am-lpm Monday-Saturda- y O is for our loqucaious Christmas tree eager to talk to you is for incredible as only the ZCMI Christmas windows can be from whatever school of thought — would dispute the provocation and advance this finding represents And tumor viruses have revealed to us a set of human genes whose activities may lie at the heart of every cancer no matter what its cause “The enemy has been found — it is part of us — and we have begun to understand the lines of its attack” Speaking of the work of other scientists on the cancer front also winning 1982 Lasker awards Bishop said: “Robert Gallo baa been at the forefront of the search to human tumor viruses It has sometimes been a lonely search His iHgice r i i i and conviction have at least been fulfilled “Hidesaburo HanafUsa and Harold Varmus gave substance to the idea that we must all have cancer genes — that cancer is part at the genetic dowry of every living cell Raymond Erickson uncovered how one of these cancer genes may wreak its havoc “Will we be able to parlay these revelations into a strategy for the control of cancer? “The issue remains in deep doubt The road ahead seems an apy description of our holiday table settings is for nifty long and daunting V i I is for greeting via long distance compliments of ZCMI and MCI a sva i is for shopping service a time saver serving you 24 hours a day i i '9 |