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...into the hills to cover the fighting remained extremely hazardous. But it was possible. Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, sent into Beirut two weeks ago, found that "you can still travel by taxi, but charges jump from $22 to as much as $200 for a nine-mile ride, depending on how dangerous an area you want to go to." Of course, the whereabouts of danger was unpredictable. On a quiet street, a small van blew up less than 50 yards ahead of Suro, sprinkling his car with glass and metal shards. What happened, he reports, was that "a Palestinian...
...project, sponsored by the Revson Foundation, will be run by Jonathan Moore, director of the IOP and Richard E. Neustadt '42, Littauer Professor of Public Administration. Using examples such as the Iranian hostage crisis. Three Mile Island and SALT negotiations, the study will examine foreign policy decision-making within the executive branch, the use of confidentiality by government officials and the press, and the impact of the press in shaping the public opinion...
...Memorial Day, an estimated 375,000 people gather for "The Greatest Single-Day Sporting Event In The World," the Indy 500. Officially the race doesn't have a name. it is the only event held at the Indianapolis Motor Speed-way each year, and the tickets say simply, "500 mile race." But to a large segment of the American auto-racing world and any proud Hoosier, it doesn't need a name. It is simply. The Race...
...direct approach: he raced through an open gate at 80 m.p.h. in a rented car. This prompted a guard to fire over his head with an M-16 automatic rifle to try to scare him back. Later, Greenberg, like other reporters, took advantage of an opening in the 60-mile-long border fence into Lebanon. In the first two days some correspondents slipped past simply by following Israeli armored columns through the gap; the dust churned up was so heavy that busy border guards did not see them...
...other bones, uncovered about half a mile away from White's find, consist of seven skull fragments, all lying within 18 in. of one another. The discoverer was another expedition member, Leonard Krishtalka of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. Remarkably, three of the fossils, including a frontal bone, which is especially useful in assessing the possible shape of the skull, easily fit together. The age of the bones was determined from radioactive dating of a layer of cindery volcanic debris near the fossils. The bones, declared Clark, are the oldest clearly identifiable hominid, or humanlike, skull fragments ever found...