Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier than this summer's planned deadline. That mood was reinforced early in the week when Israeli soldiers in an army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column and, as the Israelis passed, exploded. An open "safari" truck was reduced to a pile of smoldering metal, with twelve of the troopers aboard killed. It was the worst single loss the Israeli forces had suffered in southern Lebanon in 16 months. The fact that the bombing occurred only...
...after the assault on its convoy, the Israeli army attacked the Shi'ite town of Zrariyah (pop. 9,000) with tanks and armored personnel carriers. Several hundred Israeli troops met some resistance from Lebanese soldiers and Shi'ite militiamen, but the column continued on into Zrariyah. Automobiles were machine-gunned, and the armored vehicles rolled over several cars, crushing them like discarded tin cans. In one destroyed vehicle there was at least one passenger, but he appeared to have been killed earlier by gunfire...
...freedom he had enjoyed for ten years as a newspaper columnist, first at the Cincinnati Enquirer and later at the Washington Star. But Managing Editor Ray Cave, a former sports journalist, was not looking for just a reporter. "He told me he wanted the section to read like a column," Callahan recalls. "I was to write in my own voice." Since then, Callahan has, in his inimitable fashion, described Super Bowls and World Series, Masters tournaments and Olympic Games. In this week's cover story, Callahan looks at two young men who are the premier players in their sports: Larry...
...trading, Fedders engineered an unprecedented agreement with Swiss authorities that made it harder for inside traders to hide behind Swiss banking secrecy laws. He also launched the probe that resulted in the indictment of a Wall Street Journal reporter for passing tips to investors before publishing them in his column. Fedders withdrew from that case after one of the targets of the investigation retained counsel from his old law firm. While some associates found Fedders overbearing, the consensus at the agency and on Wall Street was that he was a tough, thoroughgoing official, one who did not allow his financial...
...imminent return to academe as a government professor at Georgetown University, Administration luminaries like Caspar Weinberger, William Casey and Edwin Meese toasted her grit in championing U.S. foreign policy and applauded her plans to carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there was no equivocating over a mock recruiting telegram from Georgetown's top-ranked Hoyas. "How about that!" said Kirkpatrick as she opened the accompanying gift...