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...Syrian effort to crush the Christians

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: The Blasting of Beirut | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

This concentrated, unrelenting application of mass terror by the United States was not the product of a temporary moral lapse--a theory which appears to be in vogue. On the contrary, it was a calculated effort to crush a decades-old struggle against colonialism, an attempt to keep Asia safe for imperialist plunder. Fortunately for the Vietnamese, it was not successful...

Author: By Jeff Mayersohn and Allan Mui, S | Title: A Return to Protest | 9/26/1978 | See Source »

...SCAVENGERS were nowhere to be found last Tuesday at Edward J. King's primary night headquarters outside Anthony's Pier Four. Not that there wasn't a goodly share of staggering bodies--between the bar and the sheer crush of it all--but something was definitely missing. The faithful had pitched camp, sweating in their polyester skins and listening to the too-slick band that played "Mack the Knife" too slow and then sprinted through "Stardust". But the scavengers--curious little fish that nose around a campaign for a few months and then, once the blood is spilled, turn around...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Friends of Ed King | 9/26/1978 | See Source »

...watch the Broncos this season. The Orange Crush came out of nowhere--actually it was Denver--to reach last January's Super Sunday...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Men's Soccer Gears Up for a Title Chase... | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...collapse. For days or weeks such exploding stars may shine as brightly as all the galaxy's billions of stars combined. Zwicky and Baade felt sure that the force of such a gravitational collapse and explosion could not only spray material far off into the heavens, but also actually crush the very atoms in the core of a star. Orbiting electrons would be pounded right into the atom's nucleus and wedded with its protons. The result of this celestial alchemy, they said, would be a clump of solidly packed neutrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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