Word: attacking
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...mainly concerned with such mundane problems as what to do about stray flocks of sheep. But Israel's underlying message is clear. As long as Khatib's men do not help P.L.O. terrorists return to the border, the Lebanese troops will be safe from Israeli attack. With Khatib's tacit permission, Israeli combat teams now patrol as deeply as three miles inside Lebanon, searching both for Syrian units and terrorists. They are also there to prevent fedayeen retaliation against border villagers, who in recent months have turned more and more to Israel for assistance...
Died. Monroe Jackson Rathbone, 76, former president, board chairman and chief executive officer of Standard Oil Co. of N.J. (now Exxon Corp.) from 1954 to 1965; of a heart attack; in Baton Rouge, La. Big, bald "Mr. Jack," whose great-uncle was General Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson, began his 44-year career with Standard Oil as a chem ical engineer. He made "Jersey," as he called it, the most international of the oil companies and raised its profits to over $1 billion...
...Oakes. The outpouring began earlier this week with a by-lined story from Salisbury, Rhodesia, cataloguing the murderous Rhodesian army raid on a black guerilla camp in Mozambique. More than 300 Africans were killed according to Salisbury sources quoted by The Times; this, in retaliation for a mortar attack on an army camp where four Rhodesian troops died. Following that story, in which not one Mozambican or guerrilla source was quoted, a piece appeared on the op-ed page, extolling the virtues of white-run Rhodesia and claiming that the nation is as free a state as one can find...
That wasn't enough for The Times. In Thursday's paper we are given the official Salisbury press release version of the Mozambican retaliation for the Rhodesian attack, complete with homeless and brave white people and savage black maniacs. This courtesy of Reuters, graciously printed on the front page by The Times. Again, no guerilla or Mozambique comment, or any African black nation's comment for that matter. Then on the ed page The Times deplores Rhodesia for the thousandth time and backs majority rule. The clear reason for this: embarrassment at running all the other racist garbage this week...
...million people in colonial America. Virginian William Byrd wrote, "It was a Place free from those three great Scourges of Mankind -Priests, Lawyers, and Physicians." Divine aid was considered more important than that of the physician. Only through God's grace could one escape disease or survive its attack. In The Angel of Bethesda, the first general treatise on medicine written in the colonies, Cotton Mather advised in 1724, "Lett us look upon Sin as the Cause of sickness...