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Sectarian murder, that tit-for-tat madness so familiar to residents of war-torn Lebanon, found a new venue last week in the streets of Israel and the occupied West Bank. In the Israeli port of Ashdod, 22 miles from Tel Aviv, an Arab grenade exploded on a crowded bus, killing three Israelis and wounding ten others. Responsibility for the action was claimed by the Black June terrorist group, a breakaway faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization based in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Only three days earlier, a bus carrying some 60 Palestinian laborers from their West Bank homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Holy Terror | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Margaret Key Biggs Port St. Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...work force of 12 million, 5 million are unemployed; industry, meanwhile, is running at only 40% capacity. The scars from the war with Iraq are apparent on every front: some 3,400 factories in the four front-line provinces have been destroyed or extensively damaged; Iran's largest port, Khorramshahr, has been incapacitated; the disruption of irrigation and the flight of farmers in war zones have caused $ 1 billion worth of cattle to perish. Yet the regime seems scarcely interested in attending to such problems. For the fiscal year ending in March 1983, the Islamic Revolution Records, ostensibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fever Bordering on Hysteria | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...plunge into Morley's peculiar oeuvre with a painting that presents his dislocations at full stretch: Age of Catastrophe, 1976. It shows an accident that never happened. A liner on the Atlantic run is warping out of port. Its hull is literally "warped," the perspective skewed and twisty. An airliner seems to have crashed on it, an old Pan Am Constellation of the sort that went out of service decades ago. But the scale is all wrong: the plane is too big for the boat, and it looks more like an effigy stuck to the painting. In fact, Morley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Haunting Collisions of Imagery | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...remember some people throwing perfumed rice at the feet of the Israelis when they arrived in 1982," says a businessman in the Lebanese port city of Sidon. "Now the same people are throwing bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discontent in the North Bank | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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