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Another obstacle: many aspiring individual sponsors are regarded by the voluntary agencies as unqualified to take responsibility for a refugee family. The Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees in Washington has been screening 22,000 inquiries received through its toll-free phone lines. "I'd be very pleased if 5,000 sponsors resulted from those inquiries," says Joseph Battaglia, head of the U.S. Catholic Conference office at California's Camp Pendleton. Explains Stahlke: "We're getting a lot of screwballs who are more interested in their own purposes than in the refugees. Some seek cheap labor; others...
...Party, most of them Maronite Christians, and bands of predominantly Moslem leftists backed by Palestinian extremists (TIME, July 7). By the time the third round ended last week, after eight days of violence, some 300 people had been killed and 700 wounded. That brought the year's death toll to about 900-the highest casualties in Lebanon since the civil unrest of 1958 that led to the landing of U.S. Marines. Losses to the nation's economy from the troubles this year are estimated at $500 million...
...continuation of the worst crisis that Lebanon has suffered since 1958, when civil war broke out and U.S. Marines landed. An estimated 450 people were killed during the first two rounds of fighting in April and May. Last week, after four days of renewed violence, the estimated death toll was between...
...freighter, the 21,000-ton Spirit of Liberty. None contained cargo for Israel, as far as was known. The volume of traffic satisfied canal authorities, although they worry that triple insurance rates, in force as long as there is no formal peace, may discourage business and limit toll revenues, which Egypt hopes will reach $450 million annually...
...forewarn of that danger, the Buenos Aires daily La Opinión last week published a front-page editorial entitled "For Whom the Bell Tolls." In an appeal for return to political decency by all groups, the paper intoned: "In the Argentina of today, the death of anyone diminishes the rest; the bells do not toll [just] for those killed [by political extremists], they toll for the rest of their compatriots...