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...buildings with small arms fire, grenades and anti-tank shells, the soldiers swept through the campus. The toll: 41 dead (only two of them police) and 180 injured. "They were out for blood," said one Western newsman who had covered the war in Viet Nam. "It was the worst firefight I've ever seen." Huddled in terror on the central soccer field, student captives were stripped to the waist and kicked around by swaggering soldiers. Shoes, watches, eyeglasses and golden Buddha medallions were confiscated. The wounded were left to bleed-drawing flies in the noonday sun, while military doctors...
...machine-gun crew in a hot firefight near the home of Samir Tabet, provost of the American University of Beirut, selected the roof of Tabet's car as a new gun position. Before opening fire, however, they carefully spread newspapers on the roof so the tripod would not scratch the paint...
...Paul conference, for example, was largely a Burger project. The Chief Justice tirelessly appears in mufti at an array of events, from judicial conferences to American Bar Association meetings. He travels extensively (a nonsmoker, he once started a losing firefight by asking Amtrak to ban cigars on the Metroliner), sometimes going abroad, most recently as the guest of the Japanese government. "I've made the discovery that ours is not the only workable system," he has observed wryly. He has covered most of Europe, though he found that in Spain and Portugal "they don't like strangers poking...
...outlying states, and Dimka soon realized that he was finished. Hands in pockets, he jauntily said, "Excuse me," walked out of the Lagos radio station, and has not turned up since. Meanwhile, loyalist tanks rolled up to Dodan barracks and routed the remaining rebels in a brief but bitter firefight. Seven hours after it started, the coup was over...
...Foreign Secretary James Callaghan warned late last week that the world faces the prospect of a "terrible war in southern Africa" unless urgent action is taken to prevent it. The most acute danger, he indicated, would be "hot pursuit" by the Cubans into South West Africa, following a successful firefight with the South African troops in the border area...