Word: excepts
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...extend from three to 200 miles out from the coast, depending on the territorial limit a country claims. For the U.S. it is three nautical miles; for the U.S.S.R. twelve.) If that invisible boundary is violated, use law endorsed by both superpowers prohibits the use of force except under extreme conditions and even then bars excessive force...
...Post's reaction underscored the dilemma of the Avis of wire services: U.P.I, cannot outstrip the dominant A.P. except by showing enterprise on stories; yet when it does, clients chafe that its ambitions may lead to carelessness with facts. Post Foreign Editor Karen DeYoung said that "it made no difference" that the assertive report came from U.P.I, rather than A.P. Still, quite a few news executives share the judgment of William Greer, associate news editor of the Miami Herald: "U.P.I, has had a reputation for shooting from the hip." Adds Greer: "They have done a good job the past...
Because all forms of gambling except horse racing are prohibited in the white apartheid portion of South Africa, Kerzner's casinos are springing up in the new black homeland states, which are nominally independent. His flagship is Sun City, a glittering $140 million oasis built in the homeland with the virtually unpronounceable name of Bophuthatswana. The state has a population of 1.4 million and an average annual income of less than $500 a year. The resort's slot machines, roulette wheels and befeathered chorus girls attract as many as 50,000 visitors a day, mostly well...
...scale novel in 17 years, comes as a welcome reminder of her commanding powers as a storyteller. Her previous book, Art and Ardor, a collection of essays published last spring, revealed her to be one of the most vigorously intellectual of contemporary American authors. Still, no other fiction writer except Isaac Bashevis Singer has succeeded so brilliantly in harnessing what Ozick has called "the steeds of myth and mysticism" in the Jewish tradition. The wonder is that her style has remained as disciplined and supple as it was in her first novel, Trust (1966). Clearly, Ozick continues to meet Henry...
Helicopter tactics were still in the experimental stage when Warrant Officer Mason arrived at An Khe in 1965. Nobody knew much of anything except that Viet Nam was, as Mason writes, "a good place to buy stereo equipment." For months the Army suffered high chopper losses because pilots flew at low levels over Viet Cong-held villages and paddy-fields without varying their approaches and takeoffs. Men died because promised chest-armor plates for their cockpits failed to arrive. To exist, Mason learned to adapt to "the details of the job at hand, no matter how bizarre...