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Each time, the level of violence rose, frighteningly, demoralizingly. In the long fighting, barely 2 sq. mi. of Beirut real estate changed hands. And the weaponry grew ever more lethal: finally even surface-to-surface missiles were used. Residential sections once considered safe were shelled by both sides. Guns of every description, every caliber were everywhere. In a country with no police force, no army, no government, the streets belonged to the gunmen and their visions of macho reinforced by Kalashnikov automatic rifles...
Wherever one goes in this 647-sq.-mi. zone bifurcating the Panamanian nation, Zonians are on the defensive...
...mission is part of a series of complicated moves worked out during Henry Kissinger's Middle East shuttle last September. Last week Israeli forces in the Sinai evacuated 1,660 sq. mi. of captured Egyptian territory, including the key passes that Israel has held since the '67 war. Egyptian troops moved forward and occupied the territory up to the western approaches to the passes. The two sides apparently worked out the latest move affably. "Relations were far better than we expected," reported one Israeli officer. "We drank coffee and played soccer together. If we kept up this atmosphere...
Cooked Beans. Surveys indicated that the tremor had devastated a tragic triangle of 2,700 sq. mi., extending from Siquinalá in the south and Gualán in the northeast, above the so-called Motagua Fault (see box). Even as dazed survivors stumbled out of the wreckage of 40 towns and villages, massive aid appeared. The first relief came from Guatemalans whose towns had been spared and who reached out to help. In the highlands village of Patzún, which had been almost totally leveled, a truck bearing tortillas and beans appeared; it had been sent from...
...happened to be black. Halfway through his opinion, the Chief Justice asked a long, deceptively innocent question: "Does segregation of children in public schools, solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the mi nority group of equal education opportunities? " His brief answer: "We believe that it does...