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...capture of the strategic crossroads of Khalde, on the coastal highway south of Beirut, one of the militiamen fed abandoned American ammunition into the vehicle's 50-cal. machine gun and fired ear-splitting bursts into the air. A few miles offshore, the menacing shape of the U.S. battleship New Jersey glided slowly past, like a big gray cat circling a bird cage. Its 16-in. guns, which had rained devastation on Druze strongholds in the Chouf Mountains the week before, were silent now, unable to do anything about the rapidly deteriorating situation on shore. The militiamen who bothered...
...gang at Toad's. The surprising success of the Iowa State University basketball team (14-9 this very moment) and the equally surprising defeats of the University of Iowa (10-13) have been topic No. 1. There's been a little Olympic palaver, and when the battleship New Jersey opened up on Lebanon, that was a priority conversation...
Then the U.S. battleship New Jersey began its bombardment. Suddenly the concern in Congress was how the Administration's new rules of engagement squared with the terms of the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which was the basis of congressional approval five months ago for the Marine presence in Lebanon. Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker formally asked the White House for an explanation. On Wednesday, Speaker O'Neill declared that the bombing and shelling of Syrian positions in Lebanon were "absolutely not" within the discretionary powers of the President under last year's congressional approval for sending...
...sense of urgency when the crew saves a group of shipwrecked Serbians atempting to flee the Austrians presently ravishing their country. While at first the entourage resent the peasants' intrusion, they gradually develop a fascination and sympathetic affection for the newcomers. Disaster looms imminent, however, when an Austrian battleship accosts the liner demanding that it hand over the refugees. The closing scene where the passengers defiantly sing to the sounds of cannons fittingly foreshadows a century where man's destruction has often outdistanced his creativity...
...savage breasts of the stokers in the boiler room, for whom they stage an impromptu concert. All of these events may be read as portents. The deck is soon crowded with Serbian refugees, some of them revolutionaries, and their presence brings down upon the Gloria N. an Austro-Hungarian battleship and a noisy climax to what can best be described as an exercise in, perhaps even a parody of, the opera buffa...