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Still more carnage was to come. On Saturday morning, the militiamen advanced into the heavily populated camp of Sabra, bordering Shatila on the north. Using bullhorns, they announced to terrified residents that they were Israelis, and demanded that the Palestinians assemble in the street. Some heeded the call, while others...
In conjunction with other western countries, the United States responded to Mexico's troubles with a patchwork bailout plan consisting of emergency food import credits, advance payments for Mexican crude oil, and $1.85 billion in loans from western central banks. But the real keys to the bailout were two longer...
Determinate sentencing ends the ambiguity. The plan considered wisest is the one adopted by Minnesota in 1980. Basically, that state's "grid" formula quantifies a convict's criminal past and his current offense, and assigns the appropriate sentence. A judge who occasionally wants to impose any lesser or greater penalty...
As a rule, the Israelis have left municipal governments alone. Says Ibrahim Adnan, underprefect of the Nabatiyah region: "Frankly, the Israeli troops don't interfere at all in our affairs." But that, to some Lebanese, is precisely the problem. A Lebanese police officer who has not received a paycheck...
Late last week another tense conflict over what books students may read ended with a compromise in a group of Long Island, N.Y., suburbs. The board of the Island Trees Union Free School District, based in Levittown, voted 6 to 1 to return to school libraries the nine books it...