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...diehard supporter of everything Israeli, but I have lived in Beirut for four years. The Palestinians have brought this war upon themselves. The crime is that they are bringing Lebanon down with them. After years of terrorism, they now assume an injured innocence and cry foul when they find themselves on the receiving end. They talk about their rights but refuse to give the Lebanese the right to control their own land...
...will not find anyone in the field who has anything but praise forBond. who himself struggles valiantly for modesty when describing the institution he is leaving. He readily accepts a request for a tour,describing the series of upper floor display rooms which even diehard scholars reading downstairs rarely...
...Juan Fernández y Krohn, 32. Police investigators soon confirmed that Fernández was, as he had appeared to be, a priest-but an archconservative one. He was ordained at the seminary of Ecône in Switzerland, the traditionalist bastion of French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a diehard opponent of the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), especially its modernization of the 16th century Latin Mass. Even Lefebvre, however, was not conservative enough for Fernández, who broke with the Ecône faction to join a French group called the Sedevacantistes. The group...
...live for a week on a hot, deserted pile of boulders and brush? All were amateur radio operators, and each was pursuing the arcane joys of one of that burgeoning hobby's most popular specialties. It is called DXing, meaning long-distance communications. The obsessive goal of diehard DXers is to make at least one contact with each of the 318 "countries" recognized by hams around the world. Under criteria established by the American Radio Relay League, the largest ham organization, Navassa qualifies as one such country because it is more than 225 miles from its governing mainland...
...such destructiveness? For one thing, the Israelis were fearful that diehard settlers might somehow find their way back and reoccupy their old homes. For another, Israeli defense authorities were apparently reluctant to encourage a large Egyptian population center so close to the Israeli border...