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...story on the Normandy battlefield, Painton crisscrossed the 60-mile stretch of landing beaches. At Pointe du Hoc, he explored the 100-ft. cliffs that U.S. Rangers had scaled in the face of enemy fire. "The remains of German bunkers are the only evidence that a war had been fought there," he reports. "Those bunkers were blasted into chunks of concrete that now resemble tilting Celtic dolmens...
...Libyan government maintained that the firing had not taken place at Bab al Azaziyeh barracks but at a three-story building about half a mile from the barracks, where the plotters were hiding from police. The government also claimed that two days earlier three members of "opposition Islamic organizations" had entered the country from Tunisia. One was shot and killed; the others, according to this official version, were carrying the names of their coconspirators, presumably Libyan members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including those who were holed up in the Tripoli building...
...welcomed to Papua New Guinea by tribes from across the country's rugged highlands and by tom-tom drums pounding out the joyful news of his arrival. Few of John Paul's foreign journeys have offered such a kaleidoscope of contrasts as the ten-day, 24,000-mile trek across the outer rim of Asia and the South Pacific that he completed at week's end. In South Korea, he assumed the role of pastor; in Thailand, he served as a diplomat; to the islands of the Pacific, he came primarily as a missionary...
...interrupts another angry man "I 'm pretty sure that it's the final mile of the marathon and the events of the decathlon...
...last week he sounded like a friend betrayed. Angered by the huge bonuses being given auto executives. Brock warned that the Reagan Administration, if reelected, would probably not ask Japan to renew the quotas when they expire next March. "Our reluctance," he told the Washington Post, "would be a mile wide and a mile deep." Brock admitted that he was not speaking for the White House, but added, "I don't know of anyone in the Administration who will disagree with...