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Even as General Paul Kelley, the Marine Commandant, was insisting in Beirut last week that security for his troops had been adequate, Marines were hard at work bolstering the compound's defenses. At the main checkpoint, bright yellow Lebanese buses were being positioned to block the only access road. In front of the compound entrance, crews were swinging rows of sandbags into place, while along the main highway, fresh coils of barbed wire were tied to metal stakes. The number of sentries at nighttime guard posts was heavily increased...
...court ruled that officials must give three days' warning in the media giving the general area in which a roadblock will be set up, allow motorists a 300-ft, warning that a checkpoint is approaching, talk to every driver, not just to random motorists, and administer the roadblock with specially trained personnel...
...nosed his craft back into the Alaskan sky at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. in Anchorage). He set off on "Jet Route 501," a southwesterly course along the Aleutian Islands and one of five commonly traveled flight paths at the start of the 3,800-mile run to Seoul. A checkpoint Bethel, about 340 miles wes of Anchorage, he would switch to what pilots call "Red Route 20," the most northerly and direct of the internationally recognized courses to Tokyo and Seoul. It would take him off the Soviet Union's Kamchatka Peninsula, about 30 miles from the Kuril Islands...
...risks ominously outweigh the opportunities. But says TIME Photographer Bill Pierce, "Some days you are wrong. One day last week we were wrong." Pierce, Associated Press Photographer Bill Foley and their Lebanese driver had been headed to get pictures in the Bekaa Valley when Syrian soldiers at a checkpoint about 50 miles northeast of Beirut ordered them out of their car and threatened to kill them as spies...
Like a scene out of an adventure film, the tank truck rumbles to a stop at the frontier checkpoint, churning up a cloud of dust. A border guard comes out to check the driver's identity papers. Suddenly a squad of armed customs agents bursts from a nearby hut. The driver guns the engine and slams through the barricade. The agents open fire. The truck swerves to a stop. Four men leap out and escape into the gathering dusk. The agents, led by a 39-year-old Pathan tribesman named Jehangir Khan, are only perfunctory in their pursuit. They...