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...staff. The car was ordered to halt by the Lebanese security guards on duty at the checkpoint. Suddenly the driver pulled a gun and shot at one of the guards. Then, as another guard shouted and ran after the van, the driver raced his engine, zigzagged through the "dragon's teeth," a staggered row of concrete blocks designed to reduce the speed of approaching cars, and headed for the embassy building...
...raising campaign to help put the wall back together again. The drive has already attracted around $250,000 in contributions. The project will not be completed for several years. Until then, the Great Wall will continue to look, as Peking Journalist Su Wenyang puts it, "like a great sleeping dragon covered with cuts and bruises...
That, of course, is of paramount importance to both countries. While the Chinese dragon and the British lion have been warily circling each other, the world's third-largest financial center has responded to every shift in the bargaining like a sampan in a typhoon. As uncertainty over Hong Kong's future mounted, untold billions of dollars left the colony; foreign consulates have been flooded with visa applications from jittery locals, businessmen in particular. The value of the Hong Kong dollar fell 40% last year, as did the price of choice properties. The Hang Seng stock market index...
...SUMMER video replacement for kids under 10. The Neverending Story is terrific. Fantasia is inhabited by dozens of strange and wondrous beings created with state-of-the-art special effects. The flying dragon and huge stone eater make the Star Wars aliens look like extras in a latenight Japanese horror movie. Unfortunately, these outstanding visual effects mostly appear in the first 20 minutes. After that, the audience sees a lot of deserted beaches, a crumbling temple and an asteroid belt...
...which also tend to refer to their organizations by fuller names. State Department experts were analyzing copies of the letters for further evidence that they were a shoddy attempt to reinforce Soviet claims that Los Angeles presents a security risk to foreign athletes. Said Samuel Royer, Maryland Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan: "In no way was the Klan involved...