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...Arafat is anxious to preserve the status quo, and helped arrange several of Lebanon's short-lived ceasefires. Until recently, the well-armed P.L.O. guerrillas stayed out of the fighting and even served as a truce-keeping force. Last week, however, rightist militants blockaded Palestinian refugee camps at Tal al Zaatar and Jisr al Basha, preventing food from reaching their 27,000 residents. To break the blockade, the P.L.O. mobilized and attacked rightist strongholds...
...Gandhi cannot save all lives. Even before his assassination, the hacking out of West and East Pakistan leads to appalling religious butchery. The strain on both new nations is nearly fa tal. Within months of its creation, Pak istan's checks are bouncing. Shaken by his awesome difficulties, Nehru asks Mountbatten to take secret control of the country once again. The irony is crushing: the last English viceroy also has to serve as India's closet king...
...been frantically restocking its arsenals, replenishing its fuel reservoirs and rebuilding its lines; at present, for instance, it has 100 more planes and 330 more tanks than it had at the start of the October war. Two of the country's most distinguished retired generals-Israel Tal, its top armor strategist, and Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, the brilliant, sharp-tongued tactician who led his division across the Suez Canal in October 1973-have returned to semiactive status. Sharon reportedly has been given a command in the "northern sector," meaning the Golan Heights, where he presumably would direct any battles against...
...known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape keeps urging them to start group therapy sessions...
...from work in Hollywood and in theater, radio and the infant television business. The inquiries also led to the creation of a new and vicious class of entrepreneurs, freelance "experts" in subversion, who made a good thing out of compiling and peddling lists of half-forgotten contributions (of money, tal ent, names) to left-wing causes...