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Sticks of Flame. Between the tents and Khaneh Arneba, the next encampment eight miles away, fires started by detonated mines and exploding demolition charges were eating up miles of brown, sun-withered grain and turning telephone poles into sticks of flame. A column of Israeli tanks rolled by, flags flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israeli Exit | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

In Quneitra, Israeli engineers using acetylene torches were taking down Syrian-installed electric poles and carting them away. Except for a few buildings in the center of town, the church and three mosques, nearly everything else had been flattened in the fighting or gutted by the withdrawing Israelis. When Syrians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israeli Exit | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Last week most of Ulster's Protestant workers stayed home, as a sign of their support or because they were intimidated by the bands of cudgel-swinging, paramilitary youths roaming the streets to enforce the strike. Most of Belfast's main roadways were blocked; only doctors and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Squeezing the Biggies | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Kennedy had. If he liked her, that was his business-and good luck to them both. The same was the case with his mother. We knew she was a millionaire, and consequently we had to keep in mind whom we were dealing with at all times. We could smile courteously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Vienna: Politics Without Mercy | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

ABOUT a hundred yards down the road, I knew Kenny only drove his motorcycle one speed. Since I had to hold on to the handgrip with one hand, that left only one hand to hold on to the eggs. There was not enough room to put the eggs completely behind...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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