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...Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further. He contends that Eblaite is more directly tied to Hebrew than to Ugaritic, although Ebla was closer to Ugarit in both geography and chronology. Against a considerable scholarly onslaught, Father Dahood has now become the leading proponent of ties between Ebla and the Bible...
...Israeli Cabinet had been in session for just 40 minutes on Wednesday afternoon when it received the news of the first important retaliatory strike by Palestinians: two northern Israeli towns were under heavy rocket attack. By the time the onslaught ended, almost two hours later, Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon had fired as many as 120 Katyusha rockets across the border, concentrating on the Israeli coastal resort town of Nahariya (pop. 30,000) and the settlement of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 20,000). The attacks killed three Israelis and injured 25. The assault had been well aimed and well timed...
...years ago and paralyzed in a plane crash four years later, has tirelessly attacked AMAX and questioned its assurances that the mine will do no harm. Noting that up to 20,000 tons of ore will be removed every day for 20 or 30 years, Mitchell forecasts an onslaught of people, noise, grit and crime. Says he: "There are messes all over the West in the name of growth. Big mining companies have no divine right to mine and tear up a community. They'd rape us and leave us bleeding...
...world as well, were questioning that very capability. The doubts grew out of a succession of U.S. setbacks: from the defeat in Viet Nam to the downed rescue helicopters in the Iranian desert, from the debacle of Three Mile Island to Detroit's apparent defenselessness against the onslaught of Japanese cars. The flaming power of Columbia's rockets seemed to lift Americans out of their collective sense of futility and gloom. At last they had a few things to cheer: an extraordinary spacecraft-the most daring flying machine ever built-and two brave and skilled...
...spite of the early onslaught, Tufts didn't cave in. With the help of a few errors and poor pitching control. Tufts eked its way back to knot the score at 11-all by the top of the fourth...