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Lebanon's 500,000 Maronites trace their history back to the 5th century. Followers of St. Maron settled in the rugged mountains of what is now northern Lebanon. In those years, Lebanon was a haven of tolerance for persecuted Muslim and Christian sects. The Maronites, who formed a union...
When a small plane carrying three men disappeared over the wilds of northeastern British Columbia last month, Canadian officials despaired of rescuing them. The area is so rugged that, short of heavenly help, finding them quickly seemed impossible. Yet through a miracle of the space age, the help came. On...
It was in his 400-year-old ancestral home in the mountains outside Beirut that Bashir Gemayel received us for the interview. From the windows of the pink stone house there is a breathtakingly beautiful view of the mountain slopes with their olive groves and grapevines among gray boulders. But...
Early on the morning of Aug. 28, PFC Joseph White of St. Louis was on duty, assigned to scan the North Korean frontier just 15 yds. away. Some time before dawn, White walked out to the chain-link fence surrounding Guard Post Ouellette, blasted the lock on the gate (probably...
Fatigue is one problem all will face, but each man has his special fears. Richard Konkolski, 37, a rugged, bearded Czech, feels that the ice and fog encountered in rounding Cape Horn will be the most difficult challenge for him and his 44-ft. sloop Nike II. Britain's...