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...bombs and oil drums filled with liquid explosives on the barrios that rebels of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) have controlled for the past three weeks. The savage air attacks killed hundreds of innocent civilians, who were unable to reach the precarious safety of makeshift shelters or flee from the target zone. By the time the Sandinista guerrillas withdrew from the area to prepare a counterattack, the streets of the barrios were filled with bodies...
...skirmishing in the countryside was less conclusive. National guardsmen intercepted 350 Sandinistas as they crossed the border from Costa Rica; the government claimed that 120 of the insurgents were killed and the remainder forced to flee back across the border. Despite that setback, a column of vehicles carrying 300 guerrillas approached the town of Rivas in southeastern Nicaragua at week's end. Their objective, charged Foreign Minister Julio C. Quintana, was to declare Rivas the capital of a liberated zone and "seek international recognition" for an alternative government...
Shinagel was born in Vienna, Austria, where his father was a successful textile merchant. However, at the age of 4, his Jewish family was forced to flee from the Nazis. They moved to France, where his father was imprisoned in Marseilles by the Vichy government. Eventually, he was released, and the family caught the last Vichy ship to America...
...also caused heavy damage in several Lebanese cities and towns, including Tyre. According to the Palestinians, Israeli planes dropped U.S.-made cluster bombs on the villages of Sarafand and Arnoun. In all, at least 50 people were killed in the Israeli attacks. Soon thousands of Lebanese were trying to flee northward, as they had done during the fighting a year ago, taking with them a few belongings and some cattle, sheep or goats. After four days, the United Nations forces in Lebanon arranged a cease-fire and at week's end it seemed to be holding...
...Parisian cab driver, is a movie buff with the auteurist sensibility of a Sorbonne professor and the computer know-how of an M.I.T. grad. Lauren (Diane Lane), the stepdaughter of an overseas American corporate executive, reads Heidegger for kicks. These two meet, go steady, then flee their meddling parents by traveling by train with Olivier from Paris to Venice. Hokey as it seems, this film's Romeo and Juliet want to pledge their eternal love by kissing in a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs...