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...seven-man United Nations team flew into Bangkok last week to investigate one of the more controversial issues to come before the international organization: accusations that the Soviet Union, through its ally Viet Nam, has for the past six years been waging chemical warfare in Cambodia and Laos...
...were to play a team game, on a narrow, forested, hilly 20-acre plot several hundred yards long. We split into two seven-man squads, put on our goggles, tied on red or yellow armbands and entered the woods. Our enemy was a quarter-mile away. Gaines and another man would defend our yellow flag. A single freelance scout would head out by himself to do what damage he could, and four of us would range as an attack squad to capture the opposing red flag. I loped off with the attackers, a middle-aged gun-control advocate...
...immediate casualty of the Israeli offensive was the fragile attempt to forge a unified government out of Lebanon's bitterly divided religious and political factions. With the help of Philip Habib, President Reagan's special envoy, Lebanese President Elias Sarkis had just succeeded in cobbling together a seven-man National Salvation Committee, representing the main factions of Lebanon's splintered society, to try to negotiate an Israeli withdrawal and set up a coalition government. At week's end, however, the committee was shaken by the resignations of two key members: Prime Minister Chafik Wazzan and Walid...
...addition to Wazzan and Jumblatt, the seven-man National Salvation Committee includes: President Sarkis, a Maronite Christian; Foreign Minister Fuad Butros, a Greek Orthodox; Parliamentary Deputy Nasri al Mallouf, a Greek Catholic; Bashir Gemayel, a Maronite and leader of the combined Christian militia known as the Lebanese Forces; Nabeh Berri, a Shi'ite Muslim and leader of the Shi'ite militia known as Amal...
Backed by 50 soldiers, the Israeli official marched into the second-story office of Ibrahim Tawil, the Arab mayor of the West Bank municipality of El-Bireh (pop. 25,000). He handed Tawil a formal document bearing ominous news: the mayor and his seven-man local council were fired. Tawil responded with a laconic "Thank you very much." After a few seconds of awkward silence, one of the soldiers ordered him to leave his office forthwith. Tawil, who had run the municipality since winning an Israeli-sponsored election in 1976, was immediately replaced by an Israeli lieutenant colonel...