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...mainland and F-15 and F-16 jets resumed their raids over Palestinian camps near Beirut, Israeli armored columns successfully challenged P.L.O. guerrillas and Lebanese Muslim militias for control of an important road junction at Khalde, six miles south of the capital's international airport. An Israeli convoy then rolled northeast through twisting mountain passages toward the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway...
...prevented U.N. agencies from airlifting supplies. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been able to dispatch aid to Lebanon via Syria and Israel. In addition, the Israelis are gearing up to help the civilians they have made to suffer so grievously. Last week they sent a convoy of 20 ambulances, ten medical-supplies vehicles and 25 doctors to Tyre and Sidon. Individual Israelis have donated chocolate candy, blankets and clothes to Lebanese youngsters. There was even a scheme devised by the Israeli National Labor Federation to bring homeless mothers with infant children from Lebanon into Israeli homes...
...closed to traffic. On Friday night, Yankee Stadium's parking lot was requisitioned to hold the 2,000 buses that brought-and took home-demonstrators from hundreds of U.S. cities. One energetic Boston contingent, making the 208-mile pilgrimage in true youthful American fashion, arrived in a bicycle convoy. From just over the East River, a group bent on even more creative travel danced across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn Saturday...
...were dropping like slow-moving drone bees onto the runways, their engines still running as they loaded up for unknown destinations. Despite reports of heavy British bombing of the runway at Port Stanley, one pallet of mail and Argentine magazines was routinely marked is. MALVINAS. In Comodoro Rivadavia a convoy of perhaps 40 Mercedes-Benz trucks painted in camouflage carried units of the country's elite paratrooper corps. I was repeatedly told that the reason for the tightened security at the airports was an expected mainland bombardment by the British. The towns behind the airports remained oddly still. Buenos...
...Army, Kissinger told Dinitz: "You will not be permitted to destroy this army. You are destroying the possibility for negotiations." To Cairo he proposed direct negotiations between Israel and Egypt. To Israel he delivered what amounted to an ultimatum: Unless the Cabinet agreed within nine hours to permit a convoy to deliver food and water to the army, the U.S. would dissociate itself from Israel over the issue. But before the deadline arrived, Egypt broke the impasse by taking a historic step: it agreed to direct talks on implementing a cease-fire between Egyptian and Israeli officers at Kilometer...