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...awoke to news of a staggering event: Palestinian guerrillas had murdered three members of one family in the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot, seized the school and taken four teachers and more than 90 schoolchildren hostage while demanding the release of 20 fedayeen in Israeli prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEARS OF UPHEAVAL | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...pride. It had to widen the Syrian territory around Quneitra; it must, within the limits of its security, attempt an act of grace. I in turn would try to head off Assad's demand that Israel give up its defense line on the western hills Thus the agony of Ma'alot was the chrysalis of the eventual breakthrough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEARS OF UPHEAVAL | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Michael Rapposelli as Ma Belle, mother of the English noble hero nearly stops the show each time he opens his mouth. He plays the buxom mom (this year, it's Mae-West-Goes-to-Brooklyn), and Rapposelli milks the show's best part for all it's worth. What's more, his stage presence carries over to his singing, with a superb voice that resounds throughout his all-too-infrequent songs...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A French Quiche | 2/25/1982 | See Source »

...settlement, which divested Ma Bell of its 22 local operating companies such as New York Telephone and Illinois Bell--the most unprofitable of Bell's substantial holdings--frees the communications giant to offer any services it chooses to whomever it wants. With its substantial capital, its Western Electric manufacturing partner and they amazingly resourceful Bell Laboratories, which may be the best research institution of its kind in the world. AT&T is now free to lead what experts predict will be a revolution in communications technology...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: Busting Trusts Sensibly | 2/18/1982 | See Source »

...stressed stumbling blocks including a possible rise in brick prices, a relatively small increase in architectural fees, and potential difficulties with a proposed bridge that would have connected the new Fogg wing to the original building. Above all, he emphasized that generally hard economic times have precluded projects that ma entail unforeseen construction cost overruns and high operating expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salvaging A museum | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

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