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...street, in a Shi'ite district of southern Beirut, Glass immediately sought help. At an all-night bakery he claimed to be a Canadian of Lebanese origin who needed a doctor for his sick daughter. To have told the bakery patrons the truth, he feared, would have frightened them and perhaps even led to his recapture. But a passing motorist quickly gave him a lift to the Summerland, two miles away. The Syrians then took him to Damascus, and a day later he was home in London with his wife and five children...
...American hospitals have been indifferent to these changes and the increasing stress they place on residents. Some have instituted "night floats," fresh teams of doctors who arrive at 10 p.m. to ease the burden of those on all-night call. Others, such as Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., have established support groups for house staff to help them cope with emotional difficulties. In some cases, fear of malpractice suits has served as incentive for medical centers to limit the hours that residents spend in the emergency room or in such specialty services as anesthesiology, where the slightest error...
Last week the Commodore's luck ran out. The hotel became a killing ground in the bitter, fierce struggle between two Syrian-backed groups, the Shi'ite Amal militia and a leftist coalition of Druze militiamen and fighters of the pro-Soviet Lebanese Communist Party. At midweek, after an all-night battle, the Druze, lobbing grenades and delivering armor-piercing rockets, stormed the hotel and drove the Shi'ites out. The floors and walls of the lobby were stained with blood, and gaping holes made by rockets scarred its walls. By the time the last guests and employees had fled...
None of the country's choice basketball players ever arrive at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on the fly, though a few have come in on one bounce. Jerry Tarkanian, a coach who looks like an all-night poker game, is the best rebounder in college basketball. At the moment, five of his first seven players are junior-college transfers. Three of the starters, including Star Forward Armon ("the Hammer") Gilliam, had no other scholarship offers at all. They are merely the top-ranked team in the nation...
...goal of defining some areas of agreement, perhaps including the reduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, or disagreement. Instead, Soviet negotiators hammered away at just one subject: SDI. Senior officials on both sides sat down later that evening to try to draft a joint communique. But there was no all-night session this time. Three hours into the staff meeting, it became clear that neither side was going to retreat from its position on SDI, and the session broke...