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...truce is threatened by reduction of a policeman's role

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Syria Tries a Shock Treatment | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...scarred Lebanon, where rival Palestinians, Muslim leftists and Christian Phalangists warily coexist under the watchful eyes of 30,000 Syrian peacekeeping troops. Last week the tenuous three-year-old truce in Lebanon was once again broken by sporadic fighting after Syria announced that it would soon reduce its policeman's role in Beirut. At the same time, the Damascus government said that it would move some of its Beirut-based forces into the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon to buttress Syria's own defense lines against a possible Israeli attack. The announcement sent shock waves throughout the Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Syria Tries a Shock Treatment | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...Games back to Lake Placid admit that they did not know what they were getting into. The area had world-class skiing slopes, but no support facilities for the Games and no idea of how to go about building them. Says the Rev. Bernard Fell, an ebullient former policeman who is president of the Lake Placid Organizing Committee: "None of us were trained in managing a construction project or picking a contractor. We didn't even know there had to be environmental impact studies, and they've cost us three-quarters of a million bucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: With Homemade Snow and Dreams of the Past | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...main point to bear in mind is that there is a new era. Iran today is not what it was under the Shah. A miracle has occurred. Under the previous regime, a single policeman could force all merchants in a huge bazaar to hoist flags to mark the Shah's birthday. These very people stood up against tanks and artillery with their bare hands. Even now, they wear burial shrouds, come here [to Qum] and declare their readiness for martyrdom. A nation thus transformed cannot be pushed around. Mr. Carter has not understood this transformation yet. He thinks a dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: An Interview with Khomeini | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

Frank Pewarski, New York City policeman, after climbing the 65-ft. Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to bring down a high-striding drunk: "This has to be the most unusual thing I ever had to do. But some of the branches were wired on. What kind of Christmas tree is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 7, 1980 | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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