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Hanoi's frustrations sometimes flare into violence. Late last month, Vietnamese troops began their annual offensive in Kampuchea to flush out the estimated 45,000 armed rebels opposed to the Hanoi-backed government of President Heng Samrin. Vietnamese soldiers destroyed Phnom Chat, a border village sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the guerrilla groups, then pulverized O Samach, a settlement 70 miles to the northeast that served as an outpost for the 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. During the blitz, however, the Vietnamese aimed their fire not only at the insurgents but at unarmed civilians...
Brutus, by contast, comes across very much as the brooding, thoughful central figure--an "honorable man" caught between considered morality and bold, heroic action. James Finnegan consistently understates Brutus's tension and growing disillusion at the havoc his revolutionary act has brought. Only an occasional flush, as he runs his fingers through thick curly hair or lets a nerve flicker in the corner of his mouth, reveals the turmoil written into the character...
...their chances in the ensuing minutes. With Blair out of position after a tough save. Providence's Steve Anderson faced a wide open net but couldn't keep it on his stick long enough to backhand it into the ocean. At the other end. Mark Fusco, hit the post flush five minutes later...
...mark in overtime, Dave Burke blasted a shot that hit the right post behind B. C. netminder Billy Switaj almost flush. And at 6:14, the game seemed to be Harvard's when B. C. 's David Livingston was called for momentarily bolding Tony Visone in center ice. But the Eagles survived the power play, covering well at both points and preventing Harvard blueliners Ken Code and Mark Fusco from launching booming slapshots...
Instead, he carried the war to the Lebanese capital. Israeli forces moved into the Christian sector of Beirut. They bombed Muslim-dominated West Beirut for most of the summer, contending that they were merely trying to flush P.L.O. guerrillas out of densely populated civilian areas. In what Begin called a "great, huge blow" to the P.L.O., the Israelis succeeded in driving more than 11,000 Palestinian fighters out of Lebanon, but at a terrible price: 462 Israeli soldiers had been killed, 2,218 had been wounded, and Israel remained caught in a military adventure that was tarnishing the nation...