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...economic sanctions against Argentina. The Royal Navy plans to continue denying Argentine ships and aircraft access to a 200-mile zone around the Falklands. The exclusionary zone may be maintained at least until the end of August, when British military engineers expect to complete expansion of the runway at Port Stanley for use by a squadron of Phantom jet fighters and Nimrod reconnaissance planes. Britain intends to establish a permanent garrison of some 2,500 troops in the Falklands, as well as a naval force that will include two submarines and three frigates. As a Thatcher aide...
North to Byblos. Ads for Woody Allen movies and a curious recurring road sign, BABY LOVE ME, that seems to have no reference. Here one is yet farther from the war. Not a soldier in sight. Only the ancient city and the ancient port, still protected by a Crusader fortress. Kids in bathing suits dangle their legs from the tops of the walls. Pleasure boats bob in the water where the Phoenicians once sailed. Is this Lebanon too? At lunch at the Fishing Club restaurant, one makes cheerful conversation with the owner, Pepe Abed, half Mexican, half Lebanese, who boasts...
...Israelis have closed the Green Line at the museum, the most frequently used crossing point. It is necessary to get to East Beirut right now, so as not to be locked in West Beirut tomorrow. The taxi driver knows a different way across the line, around by the port. In an hour that exit will be blocked as well, and West Beirut sealed off. Once out, out totally...
Iranian armed forces are poised for an assault at three points along the Iraqi border: in the south, where the reconnaissance information indicates that Iranian troops are concentrated near the port of Basra, the site of Iraq's major oil production facilities; in the center, near Amara, where Iranian troops are solidly entrenched within 200 miles of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital; and in the north, where Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has persuaded Kurdish dissidents to foment new trouble for the regime of President Saddam Hussein. In Tehran last week, Iran's Defense Minister, Mohammed Salimi, sounded a clear...
...Port of New York became my Walden Pond," Lewis Mumford recalls in this luminous autobiography. It still is. With unflagging energy and unfailing memory, Mumford, 86, assumes the tone of an urban Thoreau, ransacking the familiar for overlooked truths. His principal turf is the city; his main object of study, himself. Born in 1895 in Flushing, Queens, raised in the precincts of turn-of-the-century Manhattan, educated at City College and the New York Public Library, Mumford was ideally prepared to become one of the great critics of the modern metropolis. He is also one of the most prolific...