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...endure; Israeli shells nearly wrecked the complex during last year's war, but Owner Raja Saab rebuilt it in five months at a cost of $10 million. The hotel and its beach club became a gathering place for all religious factions, a placid oasis in a devastated terrain. The Israelis also had reason to note an irony in the violence last week. For the first time since their invasion of Lebanon more than 13 months ago, several villages in western Galilee, an area of northern Israel bordering on Lebanon, were hit by Katyusha rockets fired from southern Lebanon...
...building, and nothing but straw and dung for fuel. In addition, the remoteness of the area makes communication difficult and the provision of supplies almost impossible. In some camps refugees must either wait 36 hours for their turn at the local well or walk for three hours over rough terrain to reach the nearest source of water...
...been warned about Key West. You had been told drugs were everywhere, but for the last four months you had thought that the only thing you could count on tickling your nose was the business end of a Kalashnikov. They said this was a strange terrain of suspicious sexuality-gays are all over. And they said to watch your self around reporters, who would probably offer to buy you a drink to loosen you up. A sergeant said this was the way to respond to all three threats: "No, thank you. No, thank you. No comment." Just about...
...firing by Nicaraguan troops into Honduras to harass contra insurgents. Just after the two men's rented car, a white Toyota, passed Honduran Truckdriver Jose Cruz Espinal, he saw a grenade split the car almost in half; then machine-gun fire spattered the road. The shots came from terrain held by Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The killings could hardly have been an accident: the men were almost certainly identifiable as civilians; the attackers probably shot from no more than 150 to 300 yards away. An American journalist who had been in Sandinista encampments in recent weeks had witnessed...
...name suggests, takes over the investigation with flak and authority. He receives admirable support from the one-eyed Inspector Marbeau of Castelnaudary, a Cyclops properly impressed to find that the San Franciscan knows la belle France like the back of his land. Author Gene Thompson also knows French history, terrain, customs and cuisine, and has created a series of suspects who are only too plausible. By the punch line, one wishes they could all have been guilty...