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Sewer Pipe. Last month, on the day that Campbell was to meet with them, the guerrillas released his son and Harrell in Port Sudan. No money was passed. The State Department apparently played no role in the release, though it now says cryptically that it carried on "unremitting" efforts to free the men by negotiating through governments that have contact with the rebels. Harrell returned to his family in Milwaukee. With his Ethiopian wife, Steve Campbell flew home to Bettendorf and exulted: "I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. I had no idea there could...
Doctors on Loan. TIME'S Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand visited Guyana last week and found no sign of any such occupying force. "Disregarding the 50 to 75 Cuban shrimp fishermen who use the capital as a port," he cabled, "they number barely more than the Americans. There are perhaps 20 diplomats and staff at the Cuban Embassy, ten language teachers, six doctors on loan, two or three staff members of Cubana Airlines and a team of technicians at an airport fuel depot...
...solemn civic ceremony in Italy's southern port city of Salerno recently, wartime resistance veterans, local dignitaries and somber-suited representatives of the major political parties assembled to observe the 31st anniversary of the Liberation. Suddenly, a gang of left-wing toughs charged into the Christian Democrats' contingent and seized and burned their party flags -as if they had no right to be there...
...Port of Long Beach...
...week began with heavy fighting in the Beirut port area. Leftist forces launched an offensive aimed at seizing tall buildings from which their guns could dominate the harbor, now held by Christian fighters. For a brief time in midweek, it looked as if the two sides had decided to put down their guns and stop fighting in a spontaneous ceasefire. While red-bereted Palestine Liberation Army troops took up positions in a buffer zone between the warring factions, Moslem and Christian soldiers met and drank beer together and even played a little football...