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...YEAR AGO last may five American correspondents in Lebanon were abducted by a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and held for 24 hours. According several accounts, the newsmen were stripped and lined up against a wall as if to be executed. Them they were released on the condition their employers not reveal the episode. Only an accusatory finger pointed by the Israeli Press Office eight months later forced the American media to disclose the affair...
...shocking labor confrontation of many in the carrier's strife-torn history. On Tuesday hundreds of protesting El Al workers stormed the Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv. The demonstrators flattened tires on the cars of El Al officials, ransacked the airline's offices, roughed up newsmen and burned effigies of the members of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government while shouting, "Begin ben zonah [Begin is an s.o.b...
Solidarity organizers, however, read the mourners' show of defiance as a signal for the union to enter "a new phase of struggle." In a communiqué that reached Western newsmen in Warsaw Saturday, five underground leaders called for stepped up strikes and demonstrations, culminating in an "ultimate" nationwide walkout next spring. Charging that the regime was "deaf to the nation's needs," they urged workers to begin with a day-long work stoppage on Nov. 10, the second anniversary of Solidarity's registration in court. In Gdansk, Walesa's wife Danuta reported that her husband...
...contemplating the propriety of their having dinner in a Rome restaurant that was once the villa of Mussolini's mistress Carla Petacci, Mrs. Truman settled the matter: "Well, after all, she won't be there." Bess endured thousands of teas, receptions and galas. Mobbed by delegates and newsmen at the 1944 Democratic Convention that nominated Truman for Vice President, she lamented, "Are we going to have to go through this all the rest of our lives?" Eight and a half years later, after a crowd of 15,000 greeted the retired President and First Lady on their return...
...will the reporters weren't satisfied. After about an hour of questions, most of the newsmen had left, and Websters began to appear relieved that another chapter in their ordeal had ended. But one TV reporter will had 10 more minutes of queries...