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...first meeting and clinic from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, and advanced players will meet from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Times for the Tuesday/Thursday evening sessions will be available at the first Saturday session. The four week sessions will end May 8 with the midweek clinics the following week...
With a final sharp spurt, the stock market last week finished its most explosively bullish month ever. Easily shaking off some midweek profit taking, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 24 points on the last two trading days to close on Friday at 975, its highest mark since October 1973. That brought the rise for all of January to 123 points, the most for any month in history. Even more astonishing was the hectic pace of trading on the New York Stock Exchange: January rewrote every volume record in the Big Board book. The month witnessed the highest turnover...
...fighting. Until then, Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization-the P.L.A. is its military arm-had played a moderating role. But as the P.L.A. troops poured in from neighboring Syria, there were widespread fears of a new and broader war. To prevent such a catastrophe, all sides at midweek agreed to another hastily arranged cease-fire-the 23rd in the past four months. At week's end the truce appeared to be taking hold gradually; there was some sporadic gunfire, but the military situation had calmed considerably...
Despite the fighting, Lebanon's Christian-Moslem Cabinet managed to hold its regular session at midweek, after which Premier Karami declared, "I'm getting all warring parties to accept a compromise settlement to bring the bitter fight to an end." The passions that divide Lebanon's factions have shattered a score of cease-fires so far, how ever, and the air force's entry into the fighting further weakens the already slim possibility of a lasting truce. Syria's armed forces chief of staff, Major Gen eral Hikmat Shehabi, arrived in Beirut just before...
...mourners, wearing white paper flowers on their padded winter jackets, gathered to place wreaths around the Monument of the People's Heroes. Bands of weeping youths gathered to sing the "Internationale" and raise their clenched fists. All over the city people wept unashamedly before portraits of Chou. At midweek the remains were taken to the Great Hall of the People, where party officials listened to a eulogy delivered by Teng Hsiao-ping. A silent mass of people lined the Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity as the hearse bearing Chou's remains moved slowly away to scatter the ashes...