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...journalist, getting the story or pictures out of a war-torn nation can be as perilous as covering the war. So it was last week for Photographer Harry Mattison, on assignment for TIME in Lebanon. The Beirut airport was closed, making it impossible to ship film by air. All roads leading north, south and east were closed because of fighting. Finally the frustrated Mattison decided to walk some ten miles to the Israeli lines with the week's work of six photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador...
...army's performance under pressure was a major disappointment for Gemayel and the U.S. Torn apart by the 1975-76 civil war, the Lebanese Army was virtually nonexistent until 1982. After the Israeli invasion, the U.S. helped Gemayel rebuild a well-integrated force of 32,000, of whom about 60% were Muslim and 40% Christian. Though many Muslim soldiers resented the fact that most of their officers were Christian, the army performed surprisingly well when faced with its first tests. The soldiers cleared the Muslim militias out of West Beirut in late 1982 and succeeded, with the help...
...story mirror-glass John Hancock tower and other tall buildings. This "highrise spine," as planners call it, formed an impressive skyline but failed to mitigate the disaster on the ground: early in the 1960s, 9.5 acres of living, breathing, historic city right next to Copley Square was torn up to form a sunken tangle of railroad tracks and turnpike ramps. The gash also divided the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods...
...housing authorities are foundering financially. The cause: local mismanagement and shoddy or nonexistent maintenance that has left many of the units so dilapidated that they can no longer be rented. In Providence more than 1,000 of the city's 3,473 original public housing units have been torn down or classified as uninhabitable, at a loss of nearly $1.1 million in annual rental income. In Indianapolis maintenance crews could not document two-thirds of their repairs. With good reason...
Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha called it "a new era of realism in southern Africa." Although it was only a first, tentative step toward ending the hostilities that have torn the region for decades and prevented neighboring Namibia (SouthWest Africa) from becoming independent, there were hopes last week that this time peace might really be attainable. Starting immediately, Botha announced in Cape Town at the opening of the session of Parliament, South Africa was disengaging its forces from Angola. The statement was itself a good sign; in the past, South Africa has always denied that it even had a military...