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...Hizbolla, which means Party of God, is a rival to the Amal faction, the largest Shi'ite group in Lebanon. It receives guns, ammunition and money from the Iranian revolutionary guards operating in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley and from the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which sees it as a vehicle for extending Khomeini's influence in Lebanon. The Hizbolla is widely assumed to have been behind the U.S. embassy bombing, but neither Lebanese nor U.S. authorities have been able to pin this down. A measure of the difficulty of identifying terrorists in Lebanon is that although two or three...
...organ, which cost the university $487,000, took more than two years to build, and has 5258 pipes, 67 stops and approximately 100 ranks, and is the largest organ ever built...
...Freshmen Council kicked off the party weekend with its Halloween dance last night. All House will be having some sort of Halloween celebration Lowell House is expecting up to 800 people to its costume party, which house committee Chairman Judith S. Kessler '84 said "traditionally has been the largest Halloween party on campus...
...vice president of Charles Stark Draper Laboratories. Cambridge's largest defense contracting firm, sharply criticized the Nuclear Free Cambridge movement last night at a meeting of the Harvard Conservative Club...
Such moves, together with the growing value of many Newhouse newspapers and magazines, have led some analysts to estimate that the family holdings may now be worth more than twice what they were in 1979, or some $3 billion. By comparison, Hearst Newspapers, the next largest family-held concern, has an estimated total value of some $1.3 billion...