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...Israelis underscored the extent of their responsibility for Lebanon last week when they stepped in to help the International Red Cross arrange the evacuation of some 2,500 Christian militiamen and 5,000 civilians from the mountain town of Deir al Qamar. Israeli armor and infantry provided cover for the exodus. Even so, there were some tense moments as Druze militiamen, waving their rifles, jeered the Phalangists, who had been bundled into Israeli trucks. The Christians were eventually taken by ship from the Israeli-occupied port of Sidon to Christian-controlled areas around Beirut...
...dollarization scheme, calling it an "unhatched egg." His government's survival may now depend on whether he can persuade someone of stature to take on the thankless task of assuming responsibility for unpopular economic measures. Said a Likud Party member: "What we need is a knight in shining armor, and we do not have one who is suicidal...
...relatively small and vulnerable, about the size of ponies. Many of them undoubtedly fell victim to voracious, crocodile-like reptiles called phytosaurs. But by using almost every evolutionary stratagem, they proliferated in number and diversity. Some developed thick protective plating, comparable to that of modern-day armadillos. Ankylosaurus had armor on its skull, knobby stubs over its back and legs, and possessed a tail that ended in a huge bony club. Perhaps to shed excess body heat, Stegosaurus sprouted triangular-shaped fins on its back. Thanks to such biological cunning, within only a few million years, the dinosaurs became...
...kind that can curdle into narcissism if the sun shines too long on it-gives his records some of the trappings of a visionary quest. Indeed, Rock Critic Paul Nelson has described Browne as a sort of rock-'n'-roll Sir Gawain. Browne never wears much armor-vulnerability is a great part of his appeal, both as a writer and performer-but in the past he would sometimes get knocked right off his high white horse by the density of his subject matter...
...anything except that Viet Nam was, as Mason writes, "a good place to buy stereo equipment." For months the Army suffered high chopper losses because pilots flew at low levels over Viet Cong-held villages and paddy-fields without varying their approaches and takeoffs. Men died because promised chest-armor plates for their cockpits failed to arrive. To exist, Mason learned to adapt to "the details of the job at hand, no matter how bizarre...