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...when the Israeli commandos struck the sleeping city of Beirut. They had steamed up the Mediterranean coast in gunboats, then embarked in rubber dinghies. Some 60 naval commandos and paratroopers, armed with automatic rifles, grenades and almost 800 Ibs. of explosives, quietly rowed toward five different points along the moonlit shore. Helicopters hovered offshore with reinforcements; they were not needed. The raiders took less than 2½ hours to accomplish their missions: the assassination of three Palestinian leaders and the destruction of several fedayeen facilities. The Israelis killed at least 14 other people and wounded many more. Their own losses...
...bestseller lists. This one skillfully concentrates on a slightly different audience, using a story about class consciousness, a camp follower with a heart of gold, courage, and coming of age in the British army's retreat from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. A discreet amour in a moonlit glade is an agreeable throwback to the decorous ways of Horatio Hornblower...
...thieves can readily slash through the top to loot or steal a parked car. Besides all that, observes Chuck Norwood, a member of Lincoln-Mercury's product-planning staff, "the convertible was part of a life-style that has changed. Men used to take their girls out on moonlit nights to country lanes" where they could lower the top and admire the stars. Today, notes Norwood, the man is more likely to take the girl back to his apartment for a more direct approach...
Before long, TIME Correspondent Stan Cloud reported, "great walls of orange flame leapt into the moonlit sky, and explosion after explosion sent showers of pyrotechnic sparks into the air." On the airport road. Cloud saw "panic-stricken refugees, clutching children and personal possessions, streaming away from the holocaust. In a field a few hundred yards from the airport, hundreds of them huddled in the predawn darkness while the false sunset of the fire blazed before them. They watched the sky as if it were some huge motion-picture screen...
...control). Despite his evangelical zeal, however, he seems happiest at home in Mexico. After one recent trip, during which he visited a dozen countries in almost as many days, he arrived back at his farm late at night and looked at the cloudless sky. "It's a wonderful moonlit night," he told his haggard companions. Then, after seeing them off to bed, he stayed up until dawn, inspecting his fields...