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...that allows them an unearthly jauntiness. The sight of a new bank in Beirut is as common as a bashed-in Mercedes. You cannot tell if a hole in the ground is the work of a bomb or a construction team. The distinguishing sound of Beirut is the car horn-not the Beethoven or Roadrunner horn, but the I-am-going-to-kill-you horn. The most popular Beirut outfits are fatigues and berets, signifying the forces of the Syrians, the Palestinians and occasionally the Lebanese themselves...
...major farmers' union, meanwhile, indignantly balked at a government offer of $1 billion in subsidies. Demanding $1.7 billion, militants blocked the track of the new high-speed TGV train for one hour. Traveling salesmen got into the act with a horn-tooting, traffic-jamming demonstration in Paris' Place de la Concorde to demand new benefits, including tax-free gasoline (the current price of $2.77 per gal. includes $1.01 in taxes). Even during a generally triumphant visit to his former constituency in western Burgundy this month, there was an undercurrent of rural dissatisfaction. Said one protest sign along...
...White House also dismissed another member of the six-person commission, Stephen Horn, president of California State University at Long Beach and a moderate Republican. He was replaced by Mary Louise Smith, former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee. The removal of Flemming and Horn marks only the second time in the commission's 24-year history that a President has fired members.* Black leaders across the U.S. promptly blasted the move as a threat to the committee's tradition of outspoken independence. "Arthur Flemming was dismissed for doing his job too well," charged Democratic Congressman Harold Washington...
...keep in his home. "That is one hell of a way to live," he says. Adds Janet Cooper, a legal researcher who lives in Miami: "I see people walking down the streets openly carrying guns, some in their hands, others in their holsters. You don't dare honk your horn at anybody; you could end up dead...
...There's no question that, in this regatta. Johnny was the best sailor there. To win two-thirds of your races in a college regatta is phenomenal," jubilant coach Mike Horn said...