Word: tines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tine meetings." Walters was involved earlier this year in an effort to free the remaining U.S. hostages in Lebanon, but he does not discuss such matters. "It's like being in intelligence," he says. "If you boast of success, you can never repeat...
According to Cohen, the change will affect an estimated 8000-10,000 people entail more in convenience than any other MBEA projects because the Red Tine is the most heavily traveled, added Cohen...
...confessed was Islamic Jihad, the fanatical organization that admitted causing much of last year's terror in Beirut, including the April 18 car bombing of the U.S. embassy and the Oct. 23 attacks on American and French military facilities outside the Lebanese capital. Two weeks ago, a clandes tine radio station in Lebanon claimed that Islamic Jihad had planted 190 mines along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez...
Indeed they are, as are the people of Ain et Tine and other shell-shocked Christian towns that are not surrounded. But then so are the people of Aley and Ain Zhalta and other Druze towns, all prisoners of collective folk memories in which rights and wrongs are forever remembered. "We are the first people of Lebanon," says a Druze village elder, referring to his sect, which broke away from Islam in the 11th century (see box). "We cannot be ignored. We respect the rights of others, but they must respect our rights...
...many cases, the Japanese machines cost less than the well-crafted but expensive Harleys. Since 1977 Harley's prices have gone up about 60%, those for Japanese bikes only 40%. Barley's list price for its top-of-the-tine touring model is $8,655; the comparable Honda Aspencade is $6,998. Prices are being kept down artificially, charges Beals, "to dominate foreign markets." What is more, says Beals, the Japanese have glutted the U.S. market, which is sensitive to unemployment among young males, by exporting far more bikes than dealers could sell during the recession...