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...What has become of their husbands, their brothers and sons who have vanished during nearly a decade of civil strife? Delirious with despair, hundreds of them defied Lebanon's warlords last week and shut down the freshly opened roads between East and West Beirut. Bustling about in thick cotton dresses, they piled up burning tires, tree trunks and splintered furniture. Motorists who dared approach the barricades got their windshields smashed by club-toting mothers. Wives hurled curses at scurrying pedestrians, daughters scuffled with astonished soldiers...
Yaacov Zvieli squints at the cotton fields prospering under the sun and remembers what it was like at the beginning. How, as a skinny youth barely 20, he left his parents in Poland and in 1932 came to what was then called Palestine, carrying the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland. How he and other fervid believers founded the Negba kibbutz in 1939, digging wells and building huts on an arid patch 30 miles south of Tel Aviv. How he and his comrades, armed only with Molotov cocktails and a handful of shells, held off a dozen Egyptian tanks...
...creating the clothes that she wears so well. Last week Brinkley was in Manhattan at the gala "label cutting" for her own Russ Togs line of swim and sport clothes due in department stores this fall. Wearing a man's pajama shirt and secondhand tuxedo jacket plus knit cotton pants she designed herself, Brinkley wants "to design clothes that are comfortable. These are not going to be skimpy bathing suits cut up to here. These are suits my mom can wear too." Considerate dads might want to go out and buy their wives a copy of Brinkley...
...already a classic of Hollywood deal making gone sour. The upshot is that if Director Francis Coppola, 45, has any chance of getting The Cotton Club to the screen in December as planned, it rests with U.S. District Court Judge Irving Hill. In a ruling last week in Los Angeles, Hill likened a foot-high pile of allegations, suits and countersuits to the movie Rashomon, in which "every event is reported entirely differently by every person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah...
...report that took a searching look at the reform and concluded politely that it had had "mixed results." Among other things, the audit claimed that many of the 317 major farm cooperatives created under Phase 1 are "not financially viable." The future of those plantations, which produce mainly coffee, cotton and sugar, seems "bleak," said the report, without additional government assistance. As of September 1983, the cooperatives owed a total of $400 million. "If this process continues," the report added, "the debt could total about $2 billion by the year...