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...blare of auto horns replaced the bark of gunfire. Lebanese police, backed by soldiers, took over the streets of West Beirut, while the Lebanese army returned to barracks that it had not occupied for five years. As soldiers under the protection of French Foreign Legionnaires cleared away earthen barricades, the Sodeco crossing point between East and West Beirut was opened for the first time since 1978. It was quickly closed, however, when sniper fire from members of a small militia group, Partisans of the Revolution, caused a halt in traffic. But an hour later the leader of the group, Moustafa...
...advertisements are not conspicuous. They do not cover billboards or blare from the television set. They appear instead as small-print public notices in local newspapers or obscure items in official Government publications. Taken together, though, their import is unmistakable: the U.S. Government is about to hold its biggest real estate sale since the opening of Oklahoma...
...historic cold and 30-m.p.h. winds left Chicago streets hushed and nearly deserted. The most prominent and telling sound was the blare of sirens cutting through the frigid city air. Firemen fought eight major fires on Sunday night alone. One on the city's West Side, ignited accidentally by a homeowner who used a blowtorch to defrost his frozen plumbing, ultimately destroyed 15 houses. The fire department had to cope with frozen hydrants and bursting hoses as well as the wind-whipped fires. Retreating from a flaming house, one dispirited fireman kicked at a useless ice-filled hose...
Gregory, he yelled over the sizzle of grease and blare of WBCN...
...from the open window's the B-52s and their tender ballad. "Rock Lobster, blare. That isn't all: people are playing catch with beer kegs, tossing them out the third floor window to friends waiting on the ground. And that isn't all; inside the Winthrop House suite they are playing football, tackle football, and there is a large bole developing in one wall. When the House Master orders them to stop, they offer him a beer: when the senior tutor calls the police, someone hears the sirens, gets the idea there is a fire, and empties every extinguisher...