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What are the Shi'ites of Lebanon up to? Unlike other Arab groups, most Shi'ites despise the Palestinians, who occupied their country for twelve years prior to the Israeli invasion in 1982, almost as much as they hate the Israelis, who now control a six-mile by 40-mile security zone in the south. The extremists, including Hizballah, or Party of God, and Islamic Jihad, which is believed to be a terrorist unit within Hizballah, want to create in Lebanon an Iranian-style Islamic republic. The mainstream Amal, by contrast, wants to ensure that the Shi'ites have...
This fall the N.C.A.A., which oversees the sporting programs of 800 colleges and universities, will begin mandatory testing of all participants in the 73 N.C.A.A. championships, from basketball to field hockey, and all 19 college football bowl games. The tests will be unannounced. They may be performed prior to, during or within an hour after a game. If an athlete tests positive for any of the 200 banned drugs, he or she automatically becomes ineligible for further championship competition for at least 90 days. The new program will cost $200 a test, but John Toner, chairman of the N.C.A.A...
...sharpest exchanges came during debate on a proposal by Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts to prohibit use of U.S. troops in Nicaragua except in cases of declared war or prior congressional approval. Kennedy demanded to know whether Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, who opposed the amendment, could personally guarantee that troops would not be sent. Lugar stated his personal opposition to deploying U.S. troops but declined to make any pledge. Asserted Lugar: "The thrust of our foreign policy is not to go to war. It is to try to bring about democracy." As the outgunned and outnumbered contras acknowledge, that...
...tape, a transcript of which was released byNASA on yesterday, offered no verbal evidence thatany crew members other than Smith knew anythingwas abnormal prior to his single exclamation 73seconds after launch--the very second that groundcontrollers lost all communication with the craft...
...forbidding legal constraints against forced institutionalization. In Onalaska, Wis., last year, a 30-year-old man shot to death a priest, a lay minister and a church custodian during a mass. He had been released from a Michigan mental-health institution, where he had been committed after several prior assaults. But Wisconsin's laws and those of many other states would not allow him to be involuntarily committed...