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...with a flair for rising up at great occasions, scored 14 points at the foul line alone. This championship seemed to prompt a broader interest than usual, and the seventh game drew the largest TV audience in pro basketball history. When the live and ravenous crowd broke through and overran the court, Jabbar was stripped of his goggles, though not of his clear view. "It got away from us," he said simply. "I don't think it matters too much now who has the most talent. They had the best team...
...factions, no one group can be blamed entirely for the bloodletting. Amal, the country's largest Shi'ite organization, did spark some of the fighting. Increasingly unnerved by rumors that government troops would move into the city's predominantly Shi'ite southern suburbs, Amal militiamen overran four army checkpoints, including a key tactical post on the main highway to Damascus. At the height of the combat, many people in Beirut feared that all-out war was imminent...
...League of Nations mandate. To weaken the Arab nationalist movement, the French created contemporary Lebanon by carving from Syria the Christian region around Mount Lebanon, the predominantly Muslim Bekaa Valley and the coastal cities of Tripoli, Beirut, Sidon and Tyre. Even as they never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never absolved the French for taking territory from them. After World War II, France reluctantly departed, and Syria became an independent republic. The Syrians still celebrate April 17, the date of the 1946 French withdrawal, as Evacuation...
...Fruit Company prompted the U.S. to begin training an army of Guatemalan guerrillas in nearby Honduras despite the fact that the United Fruit Company was compensated. The arrival of 2000 tons of Soviet arms in Guatemala for Arbenz's use led to the unleashing of the guerillas who soon overran Arbenz and inaugurated a period of military rule and inaugurated a period of military and despotism still underway...
...individualism being purposely denied by such associations? One of the consequences of allowing great forces to be unleashed in this century is that the individual has found himself with very little stature or power of his own. Communist hordes overran China; Hiroshima went up in a golden bulb; revolutions flickered and were doused in East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland. What place had any one person in such moments? That the individual has lost any sense of his own importance may be due in part to the social conformities, or to the existence of the Bomb, or simply to talk about...