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Relations between the Israelis and the Egyptians at Kilometer 101 were described by a U.N. man as "good." At that point in the wilderness, the trucks carrying relief supplies for the remnant of the Third Army, which is surrounded on the east bank, move into Israeli-held territory. We saw an example of the little courtesies that hostile army officers sometimes allow one another when battles have ended. An Israeli officer passed out some fresh fruit; an Egyptian reciprocated with eau de cologne. The Egyptian told his Israeli counterpart: "Since no one really knows who won this war, the chances...
...last summer there were no big brothers at the Point, and today the sole remnant of the program is a handful of big brothers and sisters who still travel to the Point to see "their" kids...
...attack on the palace became imminent, Allende gathered his remnant of supporters in one room of the palace. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am staying." He asked everyone to leave; no one did. Allende then ordered the women to go to the office of the palace major-domo and told the men to take up combat positions. There was a 20-minute attack by infantry and tanks. During a brief truce, General Pinochet again called the palace, giving Allende 15 minutes to surrender. Once more the President refused. When the attack halted, the women in the palace−including...
President Bok yesterday told a rainsoaked remnant of the annual Associated Harvard Alumni meeting that the University should be willing to introduce a Reserve Officers Training Corps program "compatible" with Harvard's "usual institutional standards...
Under Georgia law, it is illegal to use "obscene and vulgar or profane language in the presence of a female or of a male under the age of 14." No mere remnant of the past, the law was enacted in 1968; now, by a 6-1 vote, the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld its constitutionality. The case at issue: an eleven-year-old girl went up to a car that had stopped in her neighborhood. "Have you ever been laid?" the driver asked. She immediately walked across the street, memorized the license, went home and wrote the number down. Traced...