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...L.D.P. candidates then hit the campaign trail with a vengeance. Like other Liberal Democratic leaders, the 68-year-old Prime Minister vigorously sought out Japanese voters from the northernmost island of Hokkaido to the southernmost archipelago of Okinawa. Outflanked and unprepared for the L.D.P. onslaught, the opposition got off to a slow start and never recovered. The Socialists, long the ruling party's most serious adversary, lost 25 seats in the lower house, bringing their total down to 86. The moderate Democratic Socialists did not fare much better, dropping sharply, from 37 seats to 26. The centrist, Buddhist-oriented Clean...
Similar bijoux abound in Simon's books about England and, of all places, the Bronx. The northernmost borough of New York City was the setting for the author's childhood, recounted with striking imagery and emotional precision in Bronx Primitive (1982). It too is a sort of travel book. A four-year-old Kate and her rachitic younger brother are transported thousands of miles from Poland to the U.S. at the end of World War I. The girl discovers the American air to be full of strange odors and foreign languages, especially English. She is part of a typical "Jewish...
...another release of prisoners taken out of Lebanon by withdrawing occupation forces. Two days later, some 300 Lebanese dressed incongruously in track suits sprinted from cell blocks in the prison of Atlit to a caravan of eleven buses that hauled them across the border to Ras al Bayada, the northernmost checkpoint of the remaining Israeli "security" (i.e., occupation) zone in southern Lebanon. There, Israeli soldiers untied white plastic ropes from the prisoners' wrists and turned them over one by one to Red Cross officials for release...
Throughout the redeployment, Jerusalem emphasized, the government will do "everything required" to guarantee security in Galilee, Israel's northernmost region. That reference harks back to the attacks in the area by forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization that were cited as Israel's justification for the invasion of 1982, code-named Operation Peace for Galilee. Government officials also explained that the withdrawal might free Israeli forces for more effective action in the border region. Declared Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "No terror organization will be able to establish itself as the P.L.O. did in the south of Lebanon. We will...
...heard a loud bang, then a deafening roar, and for a few seconds I could see a reddish-yellow flame streaking across the sky," recalled Bear Hunter Herman Sotkajarvi, a resident of the northernmost reaches of Norway, well above the Arctic Circle. "The house quivered, windows rattled, and my three dogs started barking." What Sotkajarvi apparently saw in the early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed...