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...tough to Begin only makes him more stubborn. The fear in Washington is that the West Bank incidents will so anger the Arabs that the cease-fire along the Lebanese border, which has held since last July 24, will end. That in turn could give the Israelis cause to mount an assault against P.L.O. positions in southern Lebanon...
...Middle Ages. As Holy Week starts on Palm Sunday, brown-robed Franciscan monks and white-robed Dominicans march in a long procession of the faithful, each with his own palm frond, along the route that Christ rode on his donkey from the village of Bethany up over the Mount of Olives, past the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane and through St. Stephen's Gate into the Old City...
Brezhnev may well survive his latest illness just as he prevailed over the ailments that periodically weakened him during the past decade. Still, tension within the Kremlin may mount as contenders for power vie for position. Apparently out of the running is Andrei Kirilenko, 75, a onetime favorite who has not been seen in public since mid-February. The most visible contender for the succession is Konstantin Chernenko, 70, a longtime Brezhnev aide who has consistently appeared standing next to the President in recent months. Other Politburo members vying for the succession include Moscow Party Chief Viktor Grishin, Leningrad Party...
...only did the guerrillas fail to intimidate voters, they were able to mount only scattered skirmishes in place of a promised nationwide offensive. Yet, by blocking voting in the eastern town of Usulutan (pop. 41,000), the media-wise rebels attracted almost as much journalistic attention as they would have by creating numerous disruptions across the country. Fighting in Usulutan and a handful of other places provided the second sentence of the morning-after election reports in the New York Times and Washington Post, and commanded a separate Page One story in the Los Angeles Times. Although nearly all newspapers...
...seen drastically defective palates fill in by 70% to 80% in ten months." Perhaps as a result, children fitted with the gadget seem to develop clearer speech than most cleft-palate youngsters. Says Plastic Surgeon Saul Hoffman, director of the Cleft Palate Center at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital: "We're all in favor of it. The prosthesis seems to narrow the opening and make surgery easier. We think it has something to do with keeping the tongue out of the opening, which allows bone to form...