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...firing at Druze militiamen and their allies. Each morning before 8 a.m. the troops finish breakfast (eggs to order, French toast and, as ever, Spam). The volleyball games and group jogs have been rare since the hostile fire turned intense late in the summer. Between duties, some soldiers kill stray scorpions and centipedes in the three-and four-man bunkers. When he was out and about during a stint as liaison officer to the British peace-keeping troops, First Lieut. Lee Marlow of Nashville found to his surprised pleasure that "people in Beirut seemed friendly. They waved and said hello...
...truce survived its first week with no major wounds, despite bouts of shelling in the southern Chouf and stray sniper fire in Beirut. Much of the credit belonged to the Lebanese Army, which refused to respond to provocations in the capital's southern suburbs. The most encouraging sign came on Thursday, when Beirut International Airport reopened after being shut down for four weeks. As the first incoming plane, a red-and-white Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 from Saudi Arabia, circled over Beirut several times, people in the streets pointed skyward and cheered...
...turn the tables for a moment. A Soviet jetliner just happens to stray over the northern tip of Alaska near some U.S. military installations. It is impossible to tell whether the plane is on a reconnaissance mission or simply off course. An American jet fighter pursues the Russian civilian plane for two hours and then shoots it down. The Soviets would immediately condemn the act as imperialist. Cold War brutality. Our allies would openly condemn the act, as would the rest of the world. The Russians would most probably take the opportunity to encourage Third World nations to avoid such...
...traditionally resilient and resourceful Lebanese capital, longtime Western residents observed a degree of discouragement greater than any in recent memory. Electricity and water were rationed, and streets were almost deserted by midafternoon. As stray rockets exploded near by, a bank manager tried to explain the prevailing mood of indifference. "You know," he said, "we are way behind in calculating the interest on savings accounts. Normally we would have a lobby full of angry people. But now there is no one. So many have left the country, and the ones who have stayed don't seem to care." -By WilliamE...
...initial information fed into the Korean airliner's INS computers at Anchorage, where the flight had refueled, was correct. Flight 007 hit its first five way points as planned. But after Neeva, Flight 007 apparently began to stray...