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...filter back and threaten Israel's northern border again. Israel sometimes goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure its safety. Israeli gunboats intercepted a ferryboat on its run between Cyprus and Beirut last week and brought it to the Israeli port of Haifa. Authorities detained nine passengers, most of them Lebanese Shi'ites who had just returned from Iran. Israeli officials insist Israel will not turn southern Lebanon into a "North Bank," but Defense Minister Moshe Arens admits that a complete pullback is "going to take a little time...
Farther north, around Tripoli, the evacuation of P.L.O. troops besieged by Syrian-backed Palestinians finally began. On Saturday, an Italian ferryboat took 93 wounded P.L.O. fighters to Cyprus with the help of the International Red Cross. As five Greek ships prepared to evacuate Arafat and his remaining troops to Tunisia and North Yemen, Israeli gunboats shelled his positions. Said an Israeli official: "We want him to sweat a little...
...were full of bravado as their moment of departure approached. Said a colonel: "We are withdrawing but we shall return, just as we shall return to Palestine." In a remarkably short time, the Palestinians, together with their packs and their AK-47 assault rifles, were loaded aboard a Cypriot ferryboat, the Sol Georgious. Shortly after 2 p.m., a full two hours ahead of schedule, they were on their way to Larnaca, Cyprus, as the bombastic farewell salute continued in the city they were leaving behind...
...bands played, and no crowds cheered, as 593 Argentine soldiers returned home under tight security last week aboard the British ferryboat St. Edmund. The diesel-powered vessel discharged its human cargo, the last of some 11,000 prisoners taken by Britain in the Falkland Islands war, on a windswept dock in out-of-the-way Puerto Madryn, 650 miles south of Buenos Aires. One of the first down the gangplank was General Mario Benjamin Menendez, army commander in the Falklands, who saddened many of his countrymen when he surrendered to Britain's Major General John Jeremy Moore. Military authorities...
...rules for escaping jury duty are equally diverse. Courts generally exempt doctors and lawyers and those who can demonstrate hardship. But tobacco farmers are exempted during harvest time in Virginia; South Carolina still excuses "apothecaries"; Indiana excuses ferryboat operators. For those who must serve, the first thing to learn is to wait. "It's waiting for the judge, waiting for the lawyers, waiting to be called. It's not amusing or fun; it's just a duty," says Gwen Pritchard, a Washington lobbyist, standing in the hallway of the District of Columbia courthouse...