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...military to escape from the coal mines of his youth. Equating discipline with love, the father trains his young son to become an artillery gunner; when he takes William to visit his mother's grave, he carts along a compass so that they can make a field map of the cemetery. This utilitarian education takes: William wins a scholarship to the Military College of Science, receives a wartime-accelerated commission in the artillery, and behaves with bravery before and during the British retreat to Dunkirk...
Since the Six-Day War, Israel has established 90 settlements in the occupied territories, including nine communities on the outskirts of Jerusalem, 36 on the West Bank (see map), 25 on the Golan Heights and 20 in Sinai and the Gaza
...battles began along the sandy Libyan-Egyptian border, 390 miles west of Cairo. In his telecast, Sadat insisted that Gaddafi-"that very strange person"-had ordered his forces to make border raids near Sallum (see map). In one such incursion, the Egyptian President said, the Libyans had taken 14 prisoners. "He felt proud of himself," Sadat said, "but he was playing with fire." The Libyans answered that it was the Egyptians who had been raiding across the border. Whatever the rights and wrongs, the Egyptians apparently reinforced their border forces last week and waited to strike, in order to teach...
Among outside powers, who supports whom in the conflict? To keep track of this, you need patience, a scorecard-and a map. Eritrea is backed by neighboring Sudan, which has long been at odds with Ethiopia and which provides most of the Eritreans' supplies via truck convoys. Radio Ethiopia regularly beams anti-Sudanese broadcasts to Khartoum, threatening to behead Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry if and when the Ethiopian peasant army manages to roll into Sudan. In response, Khartoum-based Radio Eritrea advises Ethiopians: "We surround your troops in every city they illegally occupy. The war is doomed...
They also have a brownstone in New York's Greenwich Village. In both cities De Niro knows all the joints that are off the map, small Italian restaurants and bars where he orders Black Russians. Several of his friends are people who have come to prominence in Hollywood in the past few years: Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Barry Primus. De Niro is a superior stunt man (pratfall division), and he can put anyone away with a moment of devastating mimicry...