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...south of the Kurds' mountainous, 10,000-sq.-mi. redoubt," reports Fitchett, "are Kurdish valleys where villages have been largely deserted. Fearful of air raids, entire families have taken to living in caves. Even in towns farther back in the mountains, almost all activity occurs at night, including grammar school for pupils,, who carry flashlights to get to their classes. The foothills are now a contested no man's land that has already been the scene of several skirmishes." Among other triumphs, the Kurdish radio claims that the Pesh Merga killed one Iraqi general hi combat and shot...
...Jordan. On the front, at least, the sentiment among Israeli soldiers was to smash the Arabs and go all the way to Damascus. Israeli tankers chalked ON TO DAMASCUS on the metal fronts of their Sherman and Centurion tanks. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, watching the battle from a redoubt on the Heights, made an angry vow: "We're going to show the Syrians that the road runs from Tel Aviv to Damascus as well as from Damascus to Tel Aviv." Dayan's order to his forces was to destroy as much of the Syrian army as possible along...
...Clemente, the heavy surf pounding below Richard Nixon's clifftop redoubt was shrouded by the early morning fog last week, and inside his secluded den the President was perhaps more solitary than ever before. With a swivel of his big chair, he could have seen for himself what his former aide, John Dean, was saying before the Senate Watergate committee. But the television screen remained blank...
...tower behind their house. In a neighborhood of housing-development bungalows, it is an astonishing sight. Marilyn Durham says that when Eleanor Perry writes to her describing things like the purple mountains of Monaco, "I sigh and look out at the clothesline." But she is gazing from an Elizabethan redoubt...
...tradition of Mafia warfare, a tactic like lifting the drawbridge in a medieval Italian castle town. Last week about 20 members of the Gallo mob were dug in near Joey's old headquarters, a store front on Brooklyn's President Street, just across the street from the redoubt they occupied during the 1961-62 Gallo-Profaci war. If they have followed their practice from those days, they have nailed chicken wire over the windows, to prevent hand grenades from being lobbed in. In such campaigns, security is tight. Sentries are posted on nearby streets to watch for strangers...