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...Lebanon, the Israeli forces were largely gone, but the impasse continued between the United Nations peacekeeping forces and the Israeli-backed, predominantly Christian militia known as the South Lebanon Army. Two weeks ago, the S.L.A. had seized 25 Finnish soldiers of the U.N. force, released three of them and taken the others to the Christian town of Marjayoun. It refused to let them go until eleven of its own members had been handed over by the Shi'ite Amal militia. The S.L.A. accused the U.N. force, which does not recognize the S.L.A. as an independent militia and customarily disarms...
Further tension arose in the area late last week as an Israeli-backed, predominantly Christian militia known as the South Lebanon Army kidnaped 25 Finnish soldiers of the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. According to an Israeli communique quoting the S.L.A., the action came in response to the earlier capture of eleven S.L.A. members by the Finnish soldiers. The communique went on to say that the U.N. troops had taken the S.L.A. men away in vehicles belonging to the Shi'ite Amal militia...
...Most of the folks around here are Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or Finnish and are very conservative," season-ticket holder Peter Jacobson explains. "They are all Lutherans, and Lutherans don't display their emotions...
Near the end of the session, Gretzky slips into a corner and vanishes. Concentrating on Finnish-born Right-Winger Jari Kurri, the Oilers' and the league's second leading scorer, Whitney half-steps out of the mouth of the goal to minimize Kurri's angle, and just then a puck plunks off his back into the net. Whitney says, "If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet, your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net, and he'd hit it every time." As majestic as the sight...
...week's end the Soviet Union shed light on the incident. The Soviet ) Ambassador in Helsinki paid a call on the Finnish Foreign Minister to acknowledge that, "in connection with target shooting in the Barents Sea," a target drone "could have strayed off course and violated Finnish airspace." Almost simultaneously, the Soviet Ambassador in Oslo delivered a similar message to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry...