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That Championship Season. The Loeb begins the last of its summer productions tomorrow with Jason Miller's Pultizer Prize winner. Yet another play about five people trapped in a smoky room--and this one doesn't even offer a power failure, a crazed sniper, or natural disaster as its excuse. The play deals with the reunion of four former high school basketball stars and their coach. As the evening progresses, fond memories of "that championship season" drunkenly give way to confessions of failure, infidelity and corruption...
...Lebanon's battle casualties are fighting men. Most are unsuspecting civilians suddenly hit by shell or sniper fire-or executed merely for being of the wrong religion in the wrong zone...
Discovering an older relative blasting away with a rifle from the roof of their building, a young Beiruti inquired what was going on. "I'm a sniper," the old man said proudly. "They give me $25 for each person I kill. I've already made $100 this morning." "But, uncle," pressed the youth, "how do they know you're telling the truth about the number you've bagged?" The old man bristled: "Am I not a man of integrity...
Died. Edouard Saab, 47, editor of Beirut's French-language daily newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour; of a sniper's bullet; in war-torn Beirut, while driving to the Moslem side of the battle line after two days of reporting on the Christians. A Maronite Christian born in Syria, Saab drifted into journalism after studying law at Beirut's St. Joseph University. The author of two books on the Middle East, Saab at the time of his death was writing one on Lebanon's present conflict, which he feared could lead to genocide...
...fighters intent on blasting them out with rockets and tanks. The Christian Phalangists lost the hotel, won it back briefly, then lost it for good as Moslem riflemen stormed into the shattered lobby, fought their way up from floor to floor and savagely tossed the body of a Phalangist sniper out a window as they climbed...