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...writes best-selling romances like Break Slowly, Dawn and commands $2 million advances. What do these vastly different writers have in common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great leveler. There are also the usual convoy of country-club dreadnoughts and assortment of foibles and venal sinning that go into the makings of De Vries' unusual comic novels. Peckham needs Poppy's financial support, and she yearns for his intellectual tutelage. What ensues is a zesty tale of patron and patronizer in which the student learns...
...first two espionage charges against him were dropped, Zakharov would be put on five years' probation for the third count, provided that he quit the U.S. within 24 hours. Zakharov, like Daniloff, seemed to relish his moment in the media sun. After he left the court, his convoy of cars was followed by a passel of press vehicles that caught up with him at a traffic light, and the reporters shoved microphones toward him through the car window. A smiling Zakharov said in accented but fluent English that he loved the American people and would someday like to return...
...building to aim their hoses down on the blaze. "Every step taken by the fire fighters in their battle against the flames was incredibly difficult," the account continued, "because of the hell-like heat from the melting surface" of the asphalt roof. The following day a 1,100-bus convoy that stretched 13 miles took 2 hrs. 40 min. to evacuate residents to nearby communities...
...Hussein was delivering the speech that ended his peace overture, more fighting was going on 100 miles to the northwest. Early last week a Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist group called the Islamic Resistance Front, which is dominated by the Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), attacked a small Israeli convoy in southern Lebanon and kidnaped two wounded Israeli soldiers. Within hours, some 1,200 Israeli troops pounded across the border in their biggest operation since their army withdrew from southern Lebanon last June. The mission: not only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root out guerrilla bases...
Still, the Soviets were taking no chances. On Friday they evacuated more than 100 embassy dependents and nonessential staff to Damascus, where they were to be flown back to Moscow. The bus and truck convoy that transported the frightened Soviets was guarded by heavily armed Lebanese Communist and Druze militiamen. A well-informed source in Beirut said that the Soviets may have trained some Druze fighters and now have a sizable KGB station in Mukhtara, the mountain home of Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt...