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...defied a strict curfew, barricading the streets with burning tires and chanting "Down with the dictatorship!" Rumbling through the capital's nearly deserted streets, army troops and police tried to intimidate the demonstrators by firing submachine guns into the air and throwing tear-gas grenades at them. The toll of the 5½-hour riot: two dead, nine injured and more than 500 arrested...
...Lebanon. In downtown Beirut, Lebanese army soldiers battled Shi'ite Muslim militiamen after government police tried to evict Shi'ite squatters from an abandoned school. Seven people died, including two soldiers. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Druze villagers clashed with a Lebanese army patrol. The toll: two dead and 18 wounded. The last incident carried ominous implications since the Lebanese army is expected to guard the area when Israeli troops withdraw to more defensible positions, a move the Israelis are expected to make shortly...
...toll among microbrewers has been high. Four went out of business in the past 18 months. Nevertheless, some eight new microbreweries are scheduled to start operating this year and next. Among them will be Mendocino Brewing, which is to open next month in the town of Hopland (pop. 817), in the heart of the California wine country. The firm will also have a beer garden and restaurant. A brewery next to a winery is the California version of the butcher living next to the baker...
...this year. The budding recovery has whittled the nation's civilian unemployment rate to 10%, an .8% drop from last December. For 16-to 19-year-olds, it dropped .9% from December, to 23.6% in June. Embedded in the teen-age jobless rate is a harsh 50.6% toll on black youths...
...various Government agencies over issues of smoking and health. Since 1966, federal law has mandated ever harsher health warnings on cigarette packs and in ads about smoking (see box). Those admonitions, plus increased federal and state taxes, the recession and America's rising health-consciousness, have taken their toll. Consumption was down half a percent last year, dropping from 627 billion cigarettes in 1981 to 624 billion last year. John Maxwell of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Wall Street's leading tobacco-industry analyst, believes that cigarette sales dipped an additional 3% to 6% during this year...