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...historical irony, a man who became a professional artist almost in spite of himself. The young Englishman did not start out at the easel, studiously painting still lifes and landscapes. Instead, his art came out of his life, out of his long walks in the wilderness, out of the miles he has traversed in places as diverse as England, Africa and the Arctic. His first works of art were direct factual documentations of his wanderings--maps and photographs carefully recording the trips. Sometimes Long would establish a program; in "164 Stones, 164 Miles" he walked across Ireland, placing a nearby...
...wheelchair division, Kirk Brinkman triumphed with an unofficial record time of 1:55.00. Brinkman, a double amputee from Oren, Utah, overtook George Murray three miles from the end of the 26-mile race when Murray's left wheel broke off his chair...
Though it remained essentially a propaganda war, the quarrel between those traditional rival powers of the Middle East, Iran and Iraq, threatened last week to turn into open warfare. Following several days of mounting tensions, sporadic clashes broke out across the 700-mile Iranian-Iraqi border. Then, to the momentary alarm of capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab...
Israeli army units last week moved into southern Lebanon, by now familiar territory to them, in response to a terrorist attack on one of their border settlements. An Israeli assault force probed several miles into the war-torn country with armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and more than 300 troops. The armor quickly fanned out into the six-mile-wide border enclave controlled by Israel's Lebanese Christian Militia allies. Other Israeli units, mostly infantry, moved farther north, along areas patrolled by the 6,000-man United Nations peace-keeping force that has been deployed in southern Lebanon...
...some 7,000 strong-charioteers behind chariots and horses, mounted cavalrymen, kneeling archers, thousands of spearmen, each individually sculptured and fully detailed. Scholars determined that the terra cotta army was commissioned by Qin Shihuangdi, the first Emperor of China, as a guard for his tomb, which lies nearly a mile to the west of the dig, under Mount...