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...POUND Rapallo, Italy...
Last week the German planes came over in waves, blasting the houses from their foundations with heavy bombs, loosing showers of glittering two-pound aluminum incendiary bombs to turn the "Holy City" to a furnace. Skimming the roof tops, fighting planes followed with all machine guns popping, harrying terrified peasants through the fields, sending them sprawling in their own blood. Over 800 men, women and children were killed. The munitions factory and barracks, untouched, were later seized by advancing Rightist infantry. Said Catholic Canon Alberto Onoindia of Valladolid Cathedral: "I saw the bombing and burning of Guernica...
Once tolled by hand, the 50-year-old, 5000-pound bell is now run mechanically under the control of a clock-like computer...
...saying that we are talking about the survival of democracy in Lebanon. We are fighting for values, values we have in common with the West. This is what the Syrians want to destroy. Despite what they have stolen from Lebanon, destroyed in Lebanon, siphoned off from Lebanon, the Lebanese pound is still stronger than the Syrian pound, and they can't stand it. Let me tell you, others may try to eat Lebanon, but they will never be able to digest it. You can't govern Lebanon as a dictator. It just won't work...
...work part-time at the Republican National Committee. Her job: to encourage more Republican feminists to become involved in party politics. But some White House aides fear that she will be a renegade advocate who will stir up even more trouble within the Administration. "She is a 600-pound gorilla," said a top Reagan adviser bluntly. "She can intimidate anybody. She'll go right...