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...that Syria agreed not to seize the Sannin Ridge, but would retain control over the Bekaa Valley; in exchange, Israel promised not to attack the Syrians again on behalf of their Christian allies. Such a deal, if adopted, would remove the immediate cause of last week's flare-up. Thus, if a lasting peace in Lebanon seemed as elusive as ever at week's end, the dangers of a new Middle East war, at least, seemed a little less imminent. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David Aikman/Jerusalem and William Stewart/Beirut
...having been shut down for more than a decade. But because Chinese Catholics have been cut off from liturgical changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council, the crowd of 3,000 parishioners celebrates the Mass in Latin. The ceremony ends outside in true Chinese style with a crackling flare of fireworks lighting up the night...
...Avenue de Clichy: Five O'clock in the Evening, 1887. Anquetin, drawing on childhood memories of seeing his parental garden through stained-glass lozenges in the front door, had suffused his view of a Paris street in a deep luminous blue, relieved only by the harsh yellow-orange flare of gas lamps on the charcutier's awning...
...summer's 21-day strike, and thus has a distinct Baltic coast flavor. Many are experienced labor activists who have been in trouble with the authorities before. One presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace of wonder. "Nobody thought it would have the effect it had." Wojciech Gruszecki, 44, who has been advising Poland's private farmers, has a doctorate in chemical engineering. Says...
Kirkland was given the ball again to start the second overtime, but this time the Eliot defense held as a Busch pass full incomplete on fourth down. Tempers began to flare at this point, and both teams stormed onto the field. When the coaches finally got things calmed down, Eliot was given its chance to clinch...