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...forces on all sides began to add up the painful costs of the Israeli blitz and the violent opposition to it. The P.L.O. claimed that its losses were light but that at least 8,000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians had been either killed or wounded. A Red Cross delegation from Beirut said that as many as 1,500 civilians had died in Sidon alone. Israel conceded that more than 100 of its troops had died and that some 600 had been wounded. Jerusalem also announced the death of Major General Yekutiel Adam. He was the highest-ranking Israeli officer ever...
...list of international conflicts stretches so long that individual events blur into a single image of fruitless struggle. While the British repay Argentine aggression with a surrealistic blitz on two of the world's most inconsequential sheep polities, the Italians and Iraqis are combining traditional Moslem internecine hatred with modern weaponry to produce thousands of dead bodies...
Spielberg has formidable competition for the attention of moviegoers this summer. The producers of Annie have engineered a powerful media blitz to herald their lavish if lead-souled musical. Tron, a futuristic melodrama set inside a video game, hopes to lure the addicts of the arcades back to moviehouses. New versions of Rocky, Grease, Star Trek and The Thing will tempt old adherents. The Road Warrior and Blade Runner will offer up eye-catching punk-rock apocalypses. Robin Williams will attempt to enter The World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds...
...follow up on their efforts, student representatives from each of the campuses say they will begin letter-writing campaigns, and MASSPIRG officials talk about starting a media blitz, including meeting with editorial boards on several newspapers. An AICUM official said last week that a television and radio ad campaign will begin in the next couple of weeks...
...these financial gimmicks to appear was the much heralded All Savers Certificate, which banks and savings and loan associations unfurled last October. Savers can earn up to $ 1,000 in tax-free interest on these one-year investments, which require a minimum deposit of $500. Despite an extravagant advertising blitz, though, the ASCs have proved to be a flop. Financial institutions were expecting All Savers deposits of up to $250 billion by the end of this year, but the total so far has reached only $46 billion, and customer interest is waning fast. There is no strong sentiment in Congress...