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...should be carried out. Impatient with the delay, Levinger's people are now threatening to occupy vacant houses in Hebron. Premier Menachem Begin has said the squatters are violating the law, but he has not ordered the army to evict them. On the contrary, army reservists stand guard outside the occupied Hadassah clinic round the clock to protect the squatters. Some of the soldiers dislike the duty. Said one reservist: "I vomit twice a day because I have to be here to protect these crazy bastards...
...search of water. Three of the remaining 13 were miraculously spared by hiding when, half an hour later, nine armed guerrilla soldiers arrived. "It's only because I know a terrorist when I see one that I'm still alive," recalled Anthony Hill, 39, an army reservist. He hid in the bush. At first the guerrillas, clad in jungle green uniforms, seemed friendly, promising help. But then they herded together the ten people at the wreckage, robbed them of their valuables, and finally cut them down with automatic weapons fire. From another hiding place, businessman Hans Hansen...
...African adventures. Among other things, the African policy provides a vent for the pent-up energies of young Cubans faced with a stagnating economy and limited employment prospects at home. On a recent visit to Havana, TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin was told by a Cuban air force reservist: "I will be glad to help in Africa, to help our brothers finish off neocolonialism and racism." Others are less enthusiastic but too prudent to disagree. Said one university student: "I have friends who know that some Cubans have been killed over there. But I would be afraid...
Before the royal yacht Britannia sailed through the morning mist of Belfast Lough, violence had already flared up. In Londonderry, the I.R.A. Provisionals claimed credit for a sniper's wounding of two soldiers, while in another Provo attack, a Belfast police reservist was shot in the leg and shoulder. Later, tensions mounted dramatically when a teen-age Catholic boy was shot and killed by an army patrol after he twice refused an order to stop throwing gasoline bombs into a lumberyard. The I.R.A. retaliated by shooting down a soldier guarding a bomb-disposal unit. The bloodshed, said an I.R.A...
...Clinton Sharp, 20, Marine Corps reservist visiting San Diego's Sea World...