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Hershiser's one-out single to center field in the third inning touched off a five-run outburst, capped by Marshall's home...
Last week Soviet troop planes swooped into Yerevan, capital of the Armenian republic. The soldiers who alighted and began patrolling the streets with tanks and armored vehicles were charged with a delicate mission: to calm the latest and most volatile outburst of ethnic unrest so far in Armenia and the % neighboring republic of Azerbaijan. The show of force indicated that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was eager to halt the regional conflict, which has become an embarrassing distraction from his goal of reforming Soviet political and economic life, as well as a potential weapon in the hands of his enemies...
...outburst was inspired by the transfer of Port Vila land leases from a semi-government authority to a government department. Members of Vanuatu's three Melanesian tribes, which consider themselves the traditional owners of the land, opposed government control of the leases...
...four years would be of extraordinary interest," says Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who edited the excerpts. "Most of the people mentioned are still on the political stage. That makes the book particularly sensitive." So sensitive that first-time readers, like Seaman over the Atlantic, can be excused an occasional outburst...
...first, the uprising was a spontaneous outburst of angry young men, known locally as the shabab (an Arabic word loosely translated as "guys"), driven not by leaders but by the bitter frustration of 20 years of Israeli rule. As the uprising gained momentum, the established Palestinian political factions inside the territories belatedly sought control. In late January these familiar elements started to convert the spontaneous violence into a permanent, organized struggle for control of the territories. Temporarily burying their longtime rivalries, local members of the factions -- Arafat's Fatah as well as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...