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Many pieces of art in the museum's collection which had to be stored in crates were damaged or destroyed Father Carney I Gavin director of the museum's volunteer program, said yesterday...
Hero's Story. The raids were in line with Israel's policy of carrying the war to the fedayeen, and were intended to clear out the guerrillas from southern Lebanon. But the raids may merely have made more enemies. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott drove in a taxi from Beirut to the scene. Lebanese army checkpoints had been abandoned and Scott was able to keep going until he made contact with the retiring Israelis. He found villages along the Israeli route empty and burning. At Jouaya, where fedayeen resistance prompted a pitched fight and nine-hour occupation, the hills...
Broken Promises. He had a point. But Eban for his part did not mention the violence of the Israeli response. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott was one of the few journalists to visit Hasbaya last week and found that the bombing had "left the center of the village a jumble of caved-in roofs, dangerous dangling electric wires, burned-out shops, blackened automobiles and screaming people. Four bombs made craters 12 ft. deep and 20 ft. across within 20 yds. of the house of Dr. Rashid Haddad, the town's only physician. There, the doctor said, pointing a finger...
...Baath Party's rule has reduced the legendary thousand-and-one nights capital of Haroun-al-Rashid to "a joyless city where laughter is alien and diplomats politely suspend dinner conversations when a waiter hovers within earshot," reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott after a visit last week. The city (pop. 2,100,000) is a dusty, sunbaked mélange of blue-domed mosques, dun-colored buildings and massive office complexes housing a growing government bureaucracy. Traffic jams are frequent as British-built double-decker buses, government Chevrolets and even donkeys all maneuver for the five bridges that span...
...retained to smooth administrative problems. The biggest deal made so far by Sonatrach, the government-owned monopoly, is a $5 billion contract to provide natural gas for the U.S. East Coast. "There is no contradiction in our policy," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammed ben Mehal blandly explained to TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott last week. "The American people are one thing and what the American Government does in the Middle East and Viet Nam is another...