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...Palestinian civil war, fighters from the P.L.O. battled Muslim fundamentalists in Lebanon's largest refugee camp. At least 10 people were killed and 25 more were wounded in the daylong clash. Loyalists of P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat captured much of the camp Friday morning. But after a midday cease-fire for Sabbath prayers, the fundamentalists emerged from mosques fingering the triggers of AK-47s and shouldering rocket-propelled grenade launchers; they soon recaptured all their lost territory...
Others did. The punches' midday performance on the Widener steps drew a large crowd. At noon, two Owl initiates ran up and down the steps in pantyhose, chanting "If we were shorter, we would be midgets," while others sunbathed in Harvard boxers or rubbed lotion on their fellow punches' backs...
Paleontologist Gen Suwa was walking across the pebble-covered desert of north- central Ethiopia under the searing midday sun, peering carefully around him for ancient bones. Then he saw it: the telltale gleam of a fossil tooth partially exposed on the rocky ground. "I knew immediately that it was a hominid tooth," says the University of Tokyo scientist, "and one of the oldest ever found...
...auto manufacturing. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says a U.S. move toward partial sanctions will probably spark "an irritated, if measured" Japanese response, followed by months of U.S. investigation into Japan's trading practices that should justify more action by President Clinton. Watch for a Kantor press conference at midday Saturday...
...reached a tentative settlement with the striking United Auto Workers union, which had crippled the company's car and truck production. The two-day strike by 3,500 workers at a plant in Anderson, Indiana, led to the shutdown of eight other plants in the Midwest and Canada. By midday Thursday nearly 30,000 workers were sent home or told not to report for duty...