Word: southern
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Speaking sternly before the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young last week issued the harshest denunciation ever expressed by the U.S. Government toward Israel's policy of staging pre-emptive raids on Palestinian outposts in southern Lebanon. This time he was not speaking just for himself. Said Young, who resigned under fire last month but will retain his U.N. post until later this year: "We condemn the policy of artillery shelling and attacks on Lebanese towns, villages and refugee camps ... Let there be no doubt or ambiguity about this. We cannot and do not agree with Israel...
...achieved through terrorism, his admonition to the Israelis signified a rising concern in Washington that Israel's air and artillery attacks are jeopardizing the delicate peace process. For four months Israel and its Christian Lebanese allies have relentlessly bombarded real or imagined bastions of Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon in what some U.S. officials openly describe as a "scorched earth strategy." In recent weeks these attacks have increased sharply, killing large numbers of Lebanese civilians, destroying hundreds of civilian homes, and in the process further tarnishing Israel's reputation abroad...
...Israeli Cabinet decided that the strikes should continue. Some Cabinet members also criticized Dayan for engaging in a bit of private fact-finding reminiscent of Andy Young: an unauthorized meeting with P.L.O. sympathizers in Gaza. Unlike Young, Dayan kept his job. The Israelis say their aims in southern Lebanon are threefold: to force the Palestinian guerrillas to leave the area, to help the enclave of Lebanese Christians and Shi'ites survive in a buffer zone along the border, and to strengthen Israel's bargaining position in any future negotiations with Syria concerning the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights...
Working with U.S. military police, West German agents last month arrested 29 people for illegal possession of heroin in the southern town of Oppenheim. The raid netted 24 American G.I.s from near by Anderson Barracks. Also caught were two Turkish immigrant workers and three West German women, including one 24-year-old who was the ring's alleged leader. In all, police seized quantities of heroin worth $164,000 at street prices. Even though American soldiers were involved, U.S. military personnel have long ceased to be the main source of West Germany's narcotics problem. Trafficking and addiction...
While 162 countries have been celebrating 1979 as the International Year of the Child with fairs, festivals and concerts, the International Labor Organization has been investigating the use of child labor in ten countries of Africa, Latin America, Asia and southern Europe. Last week the I.L.O. submitted its findings to a United Nations working group on slavery. Its report was chilling. It said that more than 55 million children under 15 are currently being exploited as workers, in violation of the minimum age of 15 set by a 1973 I.L.O. convention that has been ratified by 15 countries. Since most...