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DIED. Muhammad Idris el Mahdi es Senussi, 93, first and only King of Libya for 18 years until he was overthrown in a coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 6, 1983 | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Lyons they burned tires. In Montpellier they solemnly bore empty coffins through the streets. And in Paris last week, more than 2,000 high-spirited students marched down the Champs-Elysées, shattering traffic lights with rocks. As the mob charged toward the National Assembly, black-uniformed riot police armed with plastic shields, bullet-less carbines and tear gas panicked and began forcing the demonstrators back with truncheons. Undeterred, 8,000 medical students later staged a sit-in while others blocked traffic, tore up construction material and smashed a police bus. With such skirmishes continuing throughout the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Crash Course in Politics | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...Laporita 2b 3 0 1 0 Allard rf 1 2 1 1 Pitch c 3 0 0 0 Meapona dh 1 1 1 4 Vincant 3b 2 0 0 0 DiCesare ss 3 0 0 0 Proctor dh 1 1 1 0 Vierra N 2 0 0 0 McMillan es 2 0 0 0 Total 18 5 3 5 Total 22 1 4 1 Harvard 030 020--5 Connecticut 001 000--1 Game-Winning RBI--Meapons. E--Vincent, McMillars, LOB--Harvard B, Connecticut 5, 2B--Allard HR--Maspons (1). S--Rivera, Weller 2, Mariell, Maspons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson 5, Huskies 1 | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...would jump on trampolines to get closer to God. In their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant buried deep in the Yorkshire moors. It was called the Frog and the Peach, and there were only two entrées on the menu: Frog à la pêche and Pêche à la frog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cuddly Dudley, the Wee Wonder | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...Goldenberg's, but police suspect it was the work of Black June, a dissident Palestinian group. Yet the escalation of terrorist attacks in France is not limited to anti-Jewish violence. Two days after the Goldenberg's massacre, two bombs, one on the Champs-Elysées and one at the Iraqi embassy, injured six people. Since May, terrorist attacks of all kinds in Paris have killed 20 and wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Killing Ground on the Seine | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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