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...invited eleven prominent political figures, including the three leaders of the Salvation Front, to meet with him. After the army's successful campaign in West Beirut, however, Walid Jumblatt was in no mood to talk with the leaders of a government whose real ami, he said, was to "butcher the Muslims." Like everyone else in Lebanon, he knew that the army's next big test would come as the Israeli forces withdraw from the rugged Chouf and Aley regions where the Christians and the Druze live side by side in perpetual tension. Vowed Jumblatt: "We will defend ourselves...
...bedroom light came on, blinding Young for a moment. She saw fractured images. A butcher knife shining against her roommate's throat. Her roommate's pinched, ashen face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...
...Butcher of Lyon" got secret U.S. help and protection...
...Attorney General William French Smith, Ryan proposed a full-scale probe into the U.S. ties to Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyon" accused of the execution of 4,000 people and the deportation of 7,000 Jews living in France to concentration camps during the German occupation. The remarkable 218-page report of Ryan's five-month investigation, involving 200 interviews around the world, was released last week: it confirms that the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) hired Barbie as a spy in Germany after World War II and for four years hid him from the French...
...limbo designation that can extend for years, the environmentalists and developers, traditionally at loggerheads, took the unusual step of negotiating with each other. The result: an unprecedented agreement that is the basis of a bill introduced in Congress last month as the Arizona Strip District Wilderness Act. Says Russell Butcher of the National Parks and Conservation Association, a private environmental group, who was a key figure in initiating the discussions: "Considering the confrontational approach that has marked most wilderness issues, this was real pioneering...