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Five days later, Halevy again raced to a scene of bloodshed, this time in southern Lebanon, as the Israeli army retaliated against Palestinian terrorist bases. Again he had a vantage point: he and Photographer David Rubinger were among the first newsmen who managed to get to the battlefield during the actual invasion. Rubinger's pictures and Halevy's reporting-along with the files of six other TIME correspondents who covered the combat-are part of this week's cover story, the 14th on the Middle East that we have run during the past four years...
...noted, too, another serious development. In the tank battles, which were fierce and which the Egyptians conducted very efficiently, as Israel herself admitted, I noticed that every time I destroyed a dozen tanks, more tanks were to be seen on the battlefield. The United States was taking part in the war to save Israel, following the plea sent out on the fourth...
...know you're ready for it; I knew it before I came to see you," Kissinger answered. "I asked the Pentagon for a few aerial photographs of the battlefield and received a full report. Your wall of rockets consists of so many batteries (he specified the number), you have 800 tanks surrounding the Israeli Deversoir pocket, the number of your guns is (again he specified it) and you can actually wipe out that pocket. You must know, however, that if you do this the Pentagon will strike...
Paul Mazursky's best movies - Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love and now An Unmarried Woman - are bulletins from a combat zone. The battlefield is affluent urban America; the war is the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Mazursky describes the skirmishes in all their neurotic glory, tots up the emotion al casualties and tries to identify the survivors. He does so with both compassion and dark wit, and the result has been a remarkable string of films that document the changing mores of an exasperating decade. Indeed, Mazursky's social report...
Mother Nature had declared war and in so doing she left the nearby town of Hull a scarred battlefield. Until February 20, 13 days after the Blizzard of '78 had ended, army units were still blockading the two roads leading into the South Shore peninsula on which the town lies. Craters several feet in diameter pock marked the streets where sweeping tides had torn up the asphalt pavement...