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...Moskva, a Soviet carrier, steamed closer to Lebanon in obvious support of the Syrian troops. At the same time, the aircraft carrier Independence and two other U.S. warships sailed through the Suez Canal into the eastern Mediterranean. The carrier Forrestal was also in the area, with a task force that included 1,500 U.S. Marines. The State Department instructed American embassy employees in Beirut to send their dependents home, and advised other Americans to leave. Calling U.S. diplomatic efforts to avert a conflict "a long shot," Secretary of State Alexander Haig warned gloomily: "Time is running...
...garbage has run into a problem that even the ingenuity of American enterprise might not be able to resolve--the imminent shortage of large tracts of land needed to serve as dumping sites. Also, public apprehension over the leakages of hazardous wastes at the Hooker Chemical Company's Love Canal site has aggravated fears of environmental dangers that landfills might bring...
DIED. Ahmed Badawi, 53, Egyptian Defense Minister and armed forces commander in chief, who became a national hero after leading an assault division across the Suez Canal to storm the Bar-Lev line during the 1973 war with Israel; when his helicopter crashed during a routine inspection tour, killing 13 other senior Egyptian commanders and hence all but wiping out the country's military leadership; in Egypt's western desert...
...accelerator of his Peugeot 504 station wagon and breaks into a smile. Peace has brought him tangible dividends. Each morning, for four times what he made from a day's hustle in Cairo, he takes Sinai-bound passengers on the 2½-hour trip to the Suez Canal. As the highway stretches into the desert, the horizon is broken only by an occasional military encampment, gas station or Marlboro billboard in Arabic. Soon clumps of palm trees signal the town of Ismailia and the Suez ferry dock at Qantara...
Backpacking tourists, women in ragged robes and children hawking sunflower seeds bundle into the sloop for the canal crossing. On the other side we can see ruins from the 1969-70 war with Israel, a bombed church with its cupola listing to one side and crumbled stone houses...