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...architect of the Lebanese invasion, complained to the U.S. Government about Habib's reports to Washington that Israel was firing 1,000 shells into West Beirut for every shell fired by the Palestinians. Sharon denounced such accounts as "mendacious" and said that they were based on observations from afar...
...From afar, the good wishes and high hopes were just as fervent. Kissinger, who watched the confirmation sessions on television, said, "We may have struck gold this time." Kissinger believes that this is a season for a Secretary of State to "ask the right questions instead of always having the 'right' answers." Shultz's strategic silences were as encouraging as his words...
...Miami Opera. He had several critical successes, but he tried to do too much and concentrated his efforts too little. Miamians were puzzled and overwhelmed, and out-of-state tourists, who might have found in the festival an excuse for a vacation in February or March, simply yawned from afar. After 21 premieres, more than 200 performances and the possible loss of $700,000, the festival had to acknowledge the force of an old Hollywood truism: "If the people don't want to come, you can't stop them.'' -By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Marilyn AIva/Miami
...history-making fossils were found last fall in the Awash River valley of the Afar desert in north-central Ethiopia, only 45 miles south of Lucy's burial grounds. Clark's 15-member expedition is the first scientific team to dig in the remote, fiercely inhospitable valley since the fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia began to ease three years ago. Even so, the scientists took protective measures, hiring Ethiopian game wardens and rifle-bearing Afar tribesmen who also toted knives half the size of machetes...
...White, in any case, has every reason to be cautious. In 1979 he and the leader of the Lucy expedition, Anthropologist Donald Johanson, touched off a major anthropological controversy by lumping Lucy and other East African fossils into a single new species, which they called Australopithecus afarensis (apeman from Afar). These Lucy-type creatures, they said, were common ancestors of two distinct hominid lines-the australopithecines, which presumably died out, and the strain that 'led eventually to Homo sapiens...