Word: nine-month-old
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...palace, the amiable diplomat-many Lebanese have already begun calling him the "Kissinger of the Arab world"-received one delegation after another from Lebanon's rival political and confessional factions. Meanwhile, a team of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese officers monitored the cease-fire-the 23rd in the nine-month-old civil war-and managed to restore a measure of relative calm to the strife-torn country. Both the highly visible role played by Khaddam and the participation of Syrians on the truce teams were signs that Damascus has emerged, at least for the moment, as the most effective Arab...
...extraordinary freedom of action there, controlling the refugee camps and operating bases for strikes into Israel. Ending the Palestinians' status as a nation within a nation in Lebanon is a major goal of the right-wing Christian Phalange and its allies-and a constant issue in the nine-month-old civil war. Arafat is anxious to preserve the status quo, and helped arrange several of Lebanon's short-lived ceasefires. Until recently, the well-armed P.L.O. guerrillas stayed out of the fighting and even served as a truce-keeping force. Last week, however, rightist militants blockaded Palestinian refugee...
...build political capital, a view bolstered by the sight of the President cradling a newly arrived orphan. "Seeing Jerry Ford walking down the runway with that baby in his arms, I wanted to throw a shoe at the TV," said Mrs. Blair Cooter, the mother of a nine-month-old Vietnamese boy adopted last year...
...first hint of trouble had come only six days earlier, when Ethiopia's press announced that Major Mengistu Haile Mariam, whose name was previously unknown, had been the "true moving force" behind the nine-month-old "creeping coup" against Haile Selassie...
...more; Tim, 31, has had a vasectomy. They feel that more children would severely limit the freedom they have already used to give up their jobs in the Detroit area and move to California to pursue artistic careers. James and DeAnn Burrows of Cambridge, Mass., have a nine-month-old daughter, Monica, and are not sure they will have any more. The reason: both enjoy their jobs and such expensive pastimes as skiing; and, as they put it, "It takes a lot of money to stretch the goodies around...