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Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem heard about those objections firsthand when he flew to Damascus late last week, hoping at the very least to talk the Syrians into holding discussions on the subject. He got nowhere. On his return to Beirut, Salem declared gloomily, "We know that President Assad will not accept the agreement." Undeterred, the Lebanese government unanimously approved the accord with Israel the next...
Although the four Harvard professors contacted said that they have not seen any of the documents firsthand, each expressed skepticism as to the authenticity of the diaries...
...resumed his law practice, opening an office in Tallahassee and bringing his parents to live with him in 1931. The Depression had proved ruinous to his father. Pepper learned firsthand the problems of the elderly, caring for his father until he died in 1945 at the age of 72 and his mother until her death...
...curiously, there is a new, burgeoning demand at the source of cocaine: Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian youths are rushing to become cokeheads. South American governments have been generally unsympathetic to U.S. jeremiads about the northward flow of South American drugs. But now they are seeing stylish cocaine abuse firsthand. And because the drug is so cheap in the Andes ($14 a street gram), it is more often smoked liberally in cigarettes than snorted...
When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of World War II, close to 1000 Japanese Americans were among those who lived to relate firsthand their memories of those nightmarish explosions...