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...hitch is that Gemayel wants the Marines to act as a back-up for the Lebanese Army as it expands its area of control. "Are you kidding?" says a top State Department official, reflecting Washington's lack of enthusiasm for the idea. Agrees a White House aide: "One thing we won't do is appear to be marching alongside the Lebanese Army." The Syrians and Israelis apparently do not object to the plan, while two key Lebanese factions, the Christian Phalange and the Shi'ite Muslim group known as Amal, have tentatively pledged their support. But Druze...
...cast's quick reaction to a near-tragedy erased the audience's concerns, and the play continued without a hitch. Audiences who will see the musical this weekend hopefully will not smell burnt wires and see flying sparks. The lively production of this clever, melodramatic score has plenty of sparks...
...high-blown to be associated with modern major-college football. Putting aside the moral excesses, just the logistical ones are awesome. And the Nebraska program, like so many others, is overgrown to the point of hilarity, but not to the exclusion of charm. Five years is the common hitch for a Nebraska football player, and there seem to be more of them than cornstalks. None of which depresses the local citizenry, a delegation of whom rises on Thursdays before dawn, sometimes 350 strong, to attend a 6:30 a.m. breakfast, with a pep band, where the special guests...
...rocket exploded into flames on a launching pad at the space center in Tyuratum, in the Central Asian Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. Atop the rocket was a manned Soyuz space capsule bound for a rendezvous with the orbiting space station Salyut 7. Luckily, the safeguards apparently worked without a hitch, and the two or three spacemen aboard survived the disaster...
...possible hitch developed Wednesday when the House Appropriations Committee voted to cut off all funding for the Marines in Lebanon unless the President acts affirmatively under the War Powers Act. But the vote was not expected to survive in the full House. Later in the week the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the carefully wrought compromise...