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...Many Christian families who survived the civil war in West Beirut had gone to the eastern part of the city to try and start a new life. They said it would be safer there. Now black smoke hangs over it like a cloud smelling of death. Shells land every three minutes. In the Phalangist stronghold of Ain Rumanneh, every house has been hit and many leveled. One man who ran upstairs during a lull to salvage an old family heirloom had his legs blown off. The guns keep firing, the Phalange radio says hundreds are homeless...
Pertini had been among the early favorites soon after the electors gathered to choose a successor to Giovanni Leone, who abruptly resigned last month in a cloud of scandal over alleged tax evasion and financial improprieties. Pertini's Socialist Party, the country's third largest, had aggressively sought the presidency from the start, as a sign that it was not about to be submerged by the growing accord of Italy's two dominant parties, the Christian Democrats and Communists...
...issues surrounding admissions have special significance at this time in history when the numerous advances of the civil rights movement seem to be falling by the wayside. The inflammatory nature of this article, along with is misrepresentation of my views, will further cloud the issues, rather than enlighten them. I hope all other articles which deal with these matters will submit all sides of these issues to a more careful and reasonable examination. Michelle D. Holmes...
...government-inflicted sufferings of taxpayers. Said he: "We have seen the trauma of high taxes on older people. The deteriorating state of mind. The disease. The ulcers. When elderly people get those tax bills on their meager homes that demand another $1,500 a year, they get a cloud over their heads. Many of them give up the spirit and quietly die. One woman had a heart attack in front of me back in 1962 right in the assessor's office. That means something to me. Even the Russians don't do that, run people out of their homes...
...thousands of other Israelis, the land is Judea and Samaria, a part of the Eretz Yisrael into which Abraham led God's chosen people. Disputes about the future of the West Bank, which was occupied by Israel eleven years ago this month during the Six-Day War, cloud the prospects for a Middle East peace settlement. More than that, those arguments focus on the cruelest of conflicts: two families fighting over the same home...