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...break came last week after Geagea's militiamen refused a government request to dismantle a checkpoint and toll station that they maintained on the coastal highway to the north of Beirut. The commander of the Lebanese Forces, Fuad Abu Nader, 28, promptly removed Geagea from his post. Geagea's ouster, supported by Syria, quickly stirred dissension within the Lebanese Forces. Abu Nader tried to end the rift by announcing that in the future the Lebanese Forces would function independently of the Phalange Party, but his move came too late. Geagea's militiamen had already seized several Lebanese Forces barracks...
...however, a delight to visit. One could write a little dictionary of received ideas about this engaging "primitive." It would begin with his nickname, the Douanier. (He was not, as MOMA's excellent catalog stresses, a customs inspector, but a much lowlier form of bureaucratic life, a gabelou, or toll collector.) The dictionary would go through a whole list of legendary things that Rousseau did not do or see or say, things he cooked up himself (such as the innocent fiction that he had been to Mexico in the army of Napoleon III and had seen real jungles) or that...
...Phoenix heart sustained Creighton long enough for another human heart to be found and implanted. But it soon became clear that the ten hours he had spent on a heart-lung machine had taken their toll. As a result of blood- vessel damage, fluid had accumulated in his lungs, causing a buildup of pressure on the right side of his new heart that ultimately proved fatal...
...awesome. The first reference to seasonal precipitation is "snow," followed by "the white stuff," then either "it" or "the flakes," but not both. The word snow may be used once again toward the end of the report, directly after discussion of ice-slicked roads and the grim highway toll...
...nearby houses and crashed through the roof of the wood-frame dining hall, part of the cramped Newry station house. Nine 50-lb. shells were fired from a distance of about 250 yds.; one struck the canteen. The explosions were so powerful that many bodies were mutilated. The final toll: nine killed and 37 wounded, including 25 civilians. Among the dead were two young women constables and a man who had been on the force for only a month...