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...reason for the change was Ireland's indignation about the riots that had exploded in Dublin the previous Saturday when 15,000 demonstrators, organized by I.R.A. supporters, marched on the British Embassy. Some 500 of the protesters engaged in pitched battles with the police. In the melee, the fiercest confrontation in the republic since the 1920s, about 200 civilians and policemen were injured, and the damage to property amounted to more than $2 million...
...show out of it. So does Carl Chase, who plays Williams. He does not look like Hank; he does not sound much like him. But through craft or luck or force of will, he becomes Williams. The competition is tough, but Chase is giving what may be the finest, fiercest performance on the London stage this summer...
Down the mean streets of Beirut and across the green mountains to the east, the guns of Lebanon sounded once again last week. In the fiercest fighting since 1978, Syrian peace-keeping forces and Lebanese Christian militiamen squared off for control of Zahle (pop. 200,000), a city in the Bekaa Valley, 25 miles east of Beirut. For eight days the Syrian forces, using field artillery, tank guns and rocket launchers, pounded Christian positions in and around the city, which is located just off the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway. Christian militiamen in the city and nearby hills returned the fire...
...welterweight divisions. It was how Duran fought: with a burning-eyed fury that was atavistic, nihilistic, merciless in his rage to win. When he defeated Sugar Ray Leonard last June to strip the Olympic hero of his welterweight crown, Duran at last won recognition as not only the fiercest but perhaps also the finest fighter of his time...
...something new is going on in those sleepy hours from 7 to 9: the Battle of the Morning, TV's fiercest competition of the day or night. The battle pits three of television's most engaging personalities against one another...