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...wants to see the Palestinians crushed. Earlier this year, the Israelis began surreptitious shipments of small arms to Jounieh, the Christians' chief port; now the shipments include heavy Soviet-made weapons captured by the Israelis in past wars-among them T-54 tanks, armored personnel carriers and 120-mm. and 130-mm. artillery. In addition, some Christian troops have been brought to Israel for training. The Christian debt to the Israelis is such that, says a Christian leader, "in the end, we may find that we will have to choose between Syria and Israel...
...newly completed Teton Dam, 40 miles northeast of Idaho Falls. Standing on an observation platform overlooking the 3,000-ft.-long, 307-ft.-high earth-fill dam, Howard, a geography professor at Minot State College in North Dakota, began taking routine tourist pictures with his Yashica 35-mm. camera. As he watched, "that darn hole started growing-quite slowly at first-forming a small waterfall down on one side. It still looked like just a minor leak...
...Wyckoff, 60, developer of the film used to photograph atomic bomb tests. Their main hope for bringing Nessie into focus rests with a 10-ft. frame that has two large strobe lights at the top. These beam illumination through the peat-darkened waters of Loch Ness for two 35-mm. stereo cameras, a television camera and an SX-70 Polaroid camera...
...sident Kennedy for lunch. Strolling along the right bank of the Seine toward his blue sedan, he failed to notice two men wearing sunglasses, who picked up stride behind him. Suddenly, one of them, a husky six-footer in a beret, caught up. He pulled out a 7.65-mm. pistol and fired three shots at point-blank range, hitting Zenteno in the head and back. As the killers ran away, the ambassador fell dead to the sidewalk...
...pornographic bookstore arrived in 1973, complete with 16-mm. films and a hefty display of sex devices. Sales are up 25% since the first year, and the number of female customers is increasing. Yet many patrons are still furtive. As Charles Walk, editor of the Mason City Globe Gazette says, "If you walk out of there with a brown paper bag and run into your wife's hairdresser, you know what the talk's going to be at the hairdresser's for the next three weeks...