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...P.L.O. and Israel broke down only nine hours after taking effect. As Israeli gunboats bombarded the mainland and F-15 and F-16 jets resumed their raids over Palestinian camps near Beirut, Israeli armored columns successfully challenged P.L.O. guerrillas and Lebanese Muslim militias for control of an important road junction at Khalde, six miles south of the capital's international airport. An Israeli convoy then rolled northeast through twisting mountain passages toward the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway...
...through the streets of East Beirut, not far from the capital's so-called Green Line dividing the Christian and Muslim sectors. Israeli gunboats patrolled the port and coastline, thwarting nearly all naval traffic. To the south, invasion troops occupied a wide arc, stretching from the Khalde road junction into Beirut's surrounding hills, merging with Phalangist forces and blocking any escape...
...license of Dr. E. Derek Peske, assistant professor of Medicine, was suspended for on months by the Vermont Board of Medical Registry January is The board's action came after several female patients at Peske's private clinic in White River Junction. Vt registered complaints that he massaged and manipulated their general areas the Dartmouth, the college's daily newspaper reported. Peske told the board that he initialed the procedures in attempt to improve feminine hygiene...
Wise Wall Street hands urge the unsophisticated to stay out of this part of the market. Says Oppenheimer & Co. Vice President Stephen Kennard: "This business is absolutely unsuitable for the little investor." Arbitrager Jeff Tarr, the managing partner of Junction Partners, says he is concerned about arbitrage's future profitability now that so many unsuspecting investors believe that the field is "sexy." Says he: "The history of Wall Street is that when anything gets sexy like this, you should sell it short. Generally, when something is written up publicly, you lose money...
...Washington Redskins' and Chicago Bears' former head coach, now the San Diego Chargers' defensive coordinator, is a survivor of that infamous 1954 Junction (Texas) training camp in the Bear's first Texas A&M season. Of 96 players who went to summer camp, 27 were left after ten days of workouts in up to 110° heat. The others quit. "It was an effort to survive," says Pardee. "Each player could tell his own story, but mine was simply to make it to the next practice." The Bryant term for such tests: "gut checks...