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...Lebanon which revives memories of the Vietnam war. However, unlike the reformist left which cries "No more Vietnam!" because they don't want another losing war for U.S. imperialism, the SYL says Vietnam was a victory! For Marines, "our boys" were the Vietnamese who defeated U.S. imperialism on the battlefield and overthrew capitalist rule. This is act the case in Lebanon whose no side is fighting imperialism. On the contrary, she PLO. Jumblait and Germayel are all jockeying for sponsorship from one imperialist power or another...
...Middle East is like carrying coals to Newcastle, but the news last week still brought shudders. Already a formidable player in the area, Syria will soon boast an even stronger hand. According to U.S. officials, the Soviet Union is preparing to send a new type of mobile battlefield missile, the SS-21, to Syria for the first time. The surface-to-surface weapon, developed in 1976 and never before deployed outside the Warsaw Pact nations, has a range of about 75 miles. Its immediate predecessor, the FROG-7, could go only 40 miles. Armed with the more accurate...
...Salvador. While both sides went through the motions of peacemaking in Bogotá, they still hoped to gain a decisive edge on the battlefield. Crawling through cornfields, tobacco patches and shoulder-high brush, squads of guerrillas staged a surprise early-morning raid against several army outposts near the hilltop town of Tenancingo, 17 miles northeast of San Salvador. After two hours of fighting, frightened townspeople, many of whom were hiding under their beds, heard approaching army helicopters. They were soon followed by spotter planes and three U.S.-supplied A-37B Dragonfly jets...
...hitherto peaceful districts like Montgomery and Lyallpur there is not one town which has not been a battlefield. There is no bazaar which has not been burned out. Streams of refugees can be seen approaching all bridges, virtual convoys miles long. On a ten-mile stretch of road leading to the big bridge over the Sutlej River into Pakistan, there must have been 100,000 people, most of them walking beside bullock carts piled high with their sole possessions...
...audience, most notable innovations was to treat all forms had art and thought as news, to be reported and judged every week. But no battlefield, no fen of murky political intrigue resisted the newsweekly for mula so stubbornly as that variety of activities categorized by some of the magazine's early section titles: Music, Art, Radio...