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...last Thursday, a van with diplomatic license plates pulled up at a checkpoint outside the embassy annex, a building in East Beirut that in the past few months had become the headquarters of Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew and his staff. The car was ordered to halt by the Lebanese security guards on duty at the checkpoint. Suddenly the driver pulled a gun and shot at one of the guards. Then, as another guard shouted and ran after the van, the driver raced his engine, zigzagged through the "dragon's teeth," a staggered row of concrete blocks designed to reduce...
...said Nabila Khalil, 23. "Some soldiers stopped him and said they wanted to ask him a few questions. I haven't seen or heard from him in 14 months." One episode occurred often enough to become a sort of national nightmare: militiamen would set up an impromptu checkpoint, stop a car and discover the driver belonged to an enemy sect. Sometimes the motorist would be shot, sometimes he would be hustled away and executed later...
...more valuable in Hollywood." His company's mission, however, is no scriptwriter's flight of fancy: his men are serving as a first line of defense against the Sandinista forces from Nicaragua, 30 miles to the north. Two months ago, when the Sandinistas began pounding the border checkpoint of Penas Blancas, Montero had to charter a bus and haggle with local cabbies just to get his men out to the front. "I'm not asking for a tank," he sighs. "Just three pickup trucks...
...illegal visitors had one more major obstacle to pass: an INS checkpoint on Interstate 5, where agents kept a sharp watch for vehicles heavily weighted toward the rear or bouncing oddly. Those are clues that pollos may be hiding in the trunks of cars or under the floorboards of false-bottom pickup trucks. On this particular Sunday night, agents working the 3 p.m.-to-11 p.m. shift rounded up 155 aliens and took them to a detention center. INS guards then put the pollos aboard buses, drove them to a border crossing and herded them through a wire gate back...
...Lebanese village of Dbayeh, on the outskirts of Beirut. Their destination: the ancient ruins of Byblos, about twelve miles to the north, where they ostensibly planned to sightsee and picnic. Inexplicably, however, they drove past their destination along the coastal road. They crossed Christian Phalange and Lebanese Army checkpoints without incident, then suddenly spotted a Syrian checkpoint straight ahead. Realizing that they had strayed into hostile territory, they turned the car around and tried to flee. Syrian soldiers opened fire on the retreating auto and gave chase. By the time a special commando team from Israel had been sent...