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...some 500 people set out from the area north of Gaza Hospital in an attempt to seek refuge in downtown West Beirut. They soon encountered a group of Israeli soldiers. They were ordered to go back, and one of them lowered his gun on the group. The panic-stricken refugees sent a man forward to talk to the Israelis, while the others waited in the street. The emissary shouted that Sa'ad Haddad's men were killing people in the camps and that the crowd wanted to seek shelter. "I cannot do anything," came the soldier...
...country regularly. He would guarantee that Lebanon no longer would be a launching pad for terrorist acts against Israel or other neighbors of Lebanon. But he had no time to achieve even a portion of his ambitions, and his death brought a new wave of terror to the stricken country of Lebanon...
...Half the cases occurred in New York, 20% in California. More to the point, AIDS has been traced from sexual partner to partner. In one Los Angeles study, nine out of 13 patients had had sexual contact with one another. In San Francisco, six pairs of "roommates" have been stricken with Kaposi's sarcoma...
...into the nineties and the percentage of relative humidity follows closely behind, sunbathing quickly loses its charms. In both Boston and Cambridge, theaters offer wonderfully air-conditioned alternatives to Charles Bank Beach, and under some circumstances, even another showing of Shampoo at the Harvard Square will tempt the heat stricken. Luckily, for those who refuse to sacrifice quality for comfort, the Harvard Radcliffe, Summer Theater exists. Its current production of Henrik Ibsen's The Pillars of Society rapidly captivates and carries sweltering. Cantabrigians to where the heat arises from social pressure, and the sweat from fear...
Asked what he thought when he saw that the other Arab states would desert the Palestinians, he looks stricken: "In this moment, right here, I am ashamed to belong to the world." He considers what he has said. "If we escape, however, I think a new world will be born...