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...route to see Peres at the front were told by Israeli soldiers to wear flak jackets. With reason: every day last week there were new reports of violence as Israeli convoys 30 or 40 vehicles long carried south everything from prefabricated sheds to concrete roadblocks. Already land mines and sniper attacks by Arab guerrillas have claimed as many as five Israeli lives. The Israel Defense Forces say that they have killed a like number of terrorists. Shi'ite Muslim Leader Nabih Berri, who is also the Lebanese Cabinet minister responsible for southern Lebanon, vowed that assaults against the Israelis would...
...Shakespeare Company in 1977, Peter Nichols' musical play was a daft and bitter satire on Britain's declining imperial fortunes. A troupe of conscripted music-hall artists bumble and camp their way through post-World War II Singapore, drawing flak from their stiff-upper-twit major and sniper fire from local guerrillas. Alternating farcical skits with wicked song parodies, Privates was a near perfect stage piece, and thus an unsuitable candidate for filming. Some of the songs are gone; the plot is attenuated and detoxified; and Director Michael Blakemore (who also staged the R.S.C. production) has encouraged Monty...
...votes were being counted, Arias' backers clashed with supporters of Nicolás ("Nicky") Ardito Barletta, 45, the candidate of the military-backed National Democratic Union. Throughout the night, roving gangs from both sides barricaded downtown streets, looting shops and burning debris. Several times they were scattered by sniper fire that erupted from nearby buildings. The toll in one night of rioting: one dead, 41 wounded...
...paper's editorial staff numbers 668 full-time journalists, and the Times maintains 13 U.S. bureaus and 22 abroad. It also produces eight local zoned editions. Eight reporters were assigned to the Iowa presidential nominating caucuses; ten writers and four photographers were sent to the scene when a sniper attacked children at a Los Angeles elementary school. But the Times has room for individual stars. Interestingly, for a paper with a heritage of partisan Republicanism, some of them are candidly liberal. Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson leads a savvy staff; Editorial Cartoonist Paul Conrad is a blunt critic...
...photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador for three years. But, he says of the gauntlet he ran last week, "There were nervous troops from three different militias and the Lebanese Army in the area. There was mortar and sniper fire all around. At one particularly bad moment on the way south, a Lebanese Army trooper shot into the ground at my feet to force me to turn back. I have rarely been so scared." He finally reached Israeli lines, south of Beirut, where he was able to place...