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...Lebanon. While he remained relatively safe, his father was still in Beirut, where the family could only occasionally, "miraculously" hear how he was. Near the end of the summer, however, Salem heard his house in Beirut had been bombed. "As my father was walking into the house an air raid began," he relates. "When plans come in from the sea you can't hear them because they are flying faster than sound, but you can see a flash when they're there and the sound follows. My father didn't hear an explosion because the sound...
...clear, the race has seen an unprecedented amount of ethnic campaigning Lehrman is Jewish, while most of the state's Jews are consistently liberal Cuomo is an Italian Catholic, while most of his fellows are much more conservative. The result is a feverish attempt by both candidates to raid the other's ethnic group while holding onto their...
...ordering any of its units or its individuals to participate. It is deeply regretted that guilt has been assigned to organizations and individuals before official investigations have been completed." That disclaimer contradicted reports by Western journalists and informed Lebanese sources that Christian Lebanese militiamen took part in planning the raid...
...avoid criticism from ecological watchdogs. For example, to protect the prairie habitat of the rarely seen black-footed ferret, Northern Border engineers enforced a 15-mile "construction constraint" along one stretch of the line in the Dakotas in order to loop around certain prairie-dog towns, which the ferrets raid for prey. The company also held up work in several other sections for two weeks to avoid interfering with the nesting habits of prairie falcons...
Gelli, who held dual Italian-Argentine citizenship, had been on the run since last year after a police raid on his luxurious villa in Arezzo, 130 miles north of Rome. There, they discovered, the financier also served as "venerable master" of a bizarre Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. Its membership of nearly 1,000 included powerful Italian politicians, military men and police. The fact that Gelli was apparently using the lodge to achieve political power in Italy unleashed such a furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced...