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...Israeli onslaught?in effect a blitz?was interrupted at week's end by an uneasy ceasefire. By then at least 60,000 troops, led by more than 500 tanks, had swept across the 63-mile-long Lebanese border, then snaked steadily north on tortuous dirt roads. Their goal: to crush the strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...Miles of Manhattan streets were closed to traffic. On Friday night, Yankee Stadium's parking lot was requisitioned to hold the 2,000 buses that brought-and took home-demonstrators from hundreds of U.S. cities. One energetic Boston contingent, making the 208-mile pilgrimage in true youthful American fashion, arrived in a bicycle convoy. From just over the East River, a group bent on even more creative travel danced across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn Saturday...
Another attack at sea produced no casualties, but a mystery. Some 500 miles northeast of the Falklands, the 220,117-ton U.S.-owned but Liberian-registered supertanker Hercules was steaming south with her oil tanks empty. Her eventual destination: Alaska. The ship was far from the 200-mile blockade limit, which both Britain and Argentina have declared around the Falklands, when it was attacked by a four-engine aircraft, probably a C130. Bombs were pushed out of the aircraft cargo door; one hit the Hercules but failed to explode on board. None of the 29 crewmen was injured. According...
There was no doubt that Reagan was up for his ten-day, 10,659-mile jaunt. The President began striking mixed notes of light humor and high seriousness even before he left. Speaking to 300 Government officials who assembled in the White House East Room Wednesday to see him off, the President observed: "We've got everything packed, and Nancy is upstairs unplugging the toaster. I guess we're ready...
...thing, and in a number of ways. For starters, it allowed individuals of varying abilities and interests to pursue their particular goals rigorously. Witness my late night adventure at the Crimson, something that could never have taken place a few decades ago. When Radcliffe women, housed a good half-mile form Plympton St. were governed by parietals and could not become editors on what was then an all male student newspaper...