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...turmoil spread beyond Israel's borders. Israel's foreign-intelligence service, MOSSAD, was widely suspected of involvement in two bombing incidents in the Cypriot port of Limassol last week. In one, three senior officers of Fatah, the main faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, were killed by explosives hidden under the seat of their car and detonated by remote control. Although the P.L.O. denies it, the three were apparently in Limassol to arrange the purchase of the Sol Phryne, a rundown ferryboat that the P.L.O. intended to use for a voyage dramatizing the plight of 130 Palestinians deported by Israel...
...wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call," Tom begins as he narrates the tale of his Colleton, South Carolina family. An ill-fitting puzzle of contrasts, the prologue continues with a poignant description of a healthy childhood that Dr. Spock would have praised. "I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders," says...
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction, which took place at about 4:15 p.m. on the coastal highway between Lebanon's southernmost port of Tyre and Naqoura, a town on the Israeli border that is UNIFIL headquarters...
Transport Minister Chaim Corfu appeared to suggest Israel bombed a ferry that was to carry Arab deportees from a Cyprus port to Israel. If the Palestine Liberation Organization obtained another vessel, he said, "Its fate will be the same...
...loving children and a loving dog, which, while no Westie, has much fine oddness to recommend it. Well, sometimes he understands this, and sometimes he does not. When he does not, his mind packs up its belongings and sets sail like Ulysses (the very first Captain Midlife), hopping from port to port, dreaming up a storm. The Captain knows too well what the voyage of Ulysses was all about. Circe gives the old come-hither. Calypso does her little dance. The Sirens sing. No need to tie the buzzard to the mast. He's been tied there all along...