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...ferocious pounding of Beirut continued virtually unabated. Many densely populated sectors of the city were hard hit, including Palestinian refugee camps at its south end. Heavy fighting raged in and around Beirut airport. The bombardment went on through the night: illumination flares and the bright flashes of flak exploding in the air turned the night sky into a display of deadly fireworks. Israeli pilots dumped their empty fuel tanks over the city, sending them crashing into cars and rooftops. "We are animals, animals," cried a weeping Lebanese father, whose apartment building collapsed in a heap of rubble...
Carole Kleinfelder has taken a lot of flak recently over her performance as the Harvard women's basketball coach, but to anyone who has followed her career as womens lacrosse coach, these criticisms are surprising...
...Guatemala City, the familiar convoys of shotgun-toting bodyguards have disappeared, as have the street-corner patrols of combat-ready paratroopers in flak jackets and tiger suits. Vigilante policemen are no longer seen in public. There are even reports that the new junta has disbanded the dreaded judicial police force that flourished under Lucas Garc...
...Watch out for flak ahead," snaps the copilot of the B-17 in a voice that sounds like John Wayne's. Then the plane's bombardier gives an order in a slow Southern drawl. Snips from a grainy World War II movie? Not at all. This is part of B-17 Bomber, a home video game that Mattel will start selling this summer...
...president ironically would present states with a political person's Choice. Either they would have to assume responsibility, for eliminating beneficiaries from less generous programs, or boost property and other local taxes dramatically. The New Federalism appears a political masterpiece of indirection designed to protect the President from flak. while dumping responsibility for his cuts on the states. Congress must not let him get away with that scheme...