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...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. "All we do is kill each other." Then he tenderly picked up a charred bit of flesh and buried it in the ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Strikes at The P.L.O. | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...speech stressed the theme that the Western allies are united by cultural and moral values that stand in sharp contrast to Soviet totalitarianism. The President struck both harsh and conciliatory notes. He summoned the allies to a "crusade for freedom" that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." He caused a stir in the hall when he invited Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev to speak on American television if Reagan could also address Soviet citizens on TV. At one point, he expounded on the "astounding" economic failures of the U.S.S.R., declaring that "a country which employs one-fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Are Not Alone | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...Heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...only rejoinder which the over-rated and over-paid (1)wits could think of was to renege on the pregame agreement to pay for lunch. A pregame Lampoon plot to kidnap Crimson president paul M. Barrett failed miserably when Barrett left three dozen 300 th attackers in a lifeless heap. Lampoon president Lisa Hemson refused to comment on it situation, managing only a weak. "If we can't win, we'll just take our flag and go home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Joke's on the Lampy, 23-2 | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...they do talk Not being personally tough enough to associate with the likes of Patriot Game players. I can't say really whether this chatter is "realistic." Maybe there are folks who heap thousand or two-thousand word monologues of abuse--positively awesome displays of obscenity-peppered grammatically correct spleen, veritable Vesuviuses of vilification--on one another, apparently without stopping for breath. But they sure are fun to read Town...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tough Guys | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

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