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...waterfront, Israel's tough Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, architect of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, declared that the P.L.O. had suffered "a crushing defeat" and had lost "its kingdom of terrorism," and so it had. But in the streets of West Beirut, the P.L.O. guerrillas were full of bravado as their moment of departure approached. Said a colonel: "We are withdrawing but we shall return, just as we shall return to Palestine." In a remarkably short time, the Palestinians, together with their packs and their AK-47 assault rifles, were loaded aboard a Cypriot ferryboat, the Sol Georgious. Shortly...
...Colonel Thomas Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, who gained notoriety while soldiering for fortune in the Congo during the 1960s, put up a plucky front. During recesses Hoare entertained visitors with tales of his derring-do and signed copies of his swashbuckling biography, entitled Congo Mercenary. But last week the bravado was gone from the man who used to run a swaggering group of commandos in the Congo who called themselves the Wild Geese. His face ashen, Hoare, 63, slumped in his chair in a Pietermaritzburg courtroom as Judge Neville James found him and 42 fellow mercenaries guilty of airplane hijacking...
...What bravado! Revolutions often start in quiet corners. But few try to rouse the masses when most of them are asleep. ABC and NBC did just that last week, however, in the first phase of the biggest growth of network TV news since the mid-1960s, when evening broadcasts grew from 15 minutes to a half-hour. ABC and NBC launched programs to serve news junkies as late as 3 a.m. and as early as 6 a.m. CBS will counter in October with news programs stretching from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m., thereby keeping the network...
...together only for the climatic personal duel at the play's end Here director Coe has made a serious mistake He bade his fight master. B H Barry, to stage the combat so that Hotspur repeatedly gains the advantage and could dispatch the Prince, but repeatedly chooses through sheer bravado to spare Hal and permit him to rearm Hal's combative skill is thus cheapened, and his eventual victory is made hollow, the result of mere chance. (It is, by the way, not known who slew the historical Hotspur...
...Beirut, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat was quoted by a leftist newspaper as comparing himself with the wartime Winston Churchill. "Why do you say that I will leave Beirut?" Arafat demanded. "What is this stupid propaganda? Did Winston Churchill leave London?" Arafat's bravado concealed the harsh truth of the P.L.O.'s predicament: there is no place it can go and survive in its present form. The P.L.O. leadership and many of its guerrillas may eventually be given sanctuary in one or more Arab countries, but none was willing to accept the P.L.O. as an organized military force...