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...Americans safely out of Lebanon. It also carried the flag-draped aluminum coffins of Meloy and Waring. They had been seen off by a U.S. embassy Marine Honor Guard−in dress blues−and British embassy officials. Though the British column, at first with P.L.O., then Syrian troop escort, was briefly caught in crossfire, it reached Damascus safely...
Something Borrowed. Even Simon is amazed by the success of his play. "I was nervous," he told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos last week, "especially seeing all those very Waspy types from Pasadena troop into the theater. I wondered whether someone who's so New York in his humor would be funny to them." They laughed because portions of California Suite, a series of four one-acters, play skillfully on Simon's view of the absurdity of the New York v. Hollywood chauvinism. "This place," snorts a New York woman as she arrives in Beverly Hills, "smells like...
...country" and to economic pressure-meaning a reluctance on the part of banks and international agencies to lend money. In fact, Guyana can show no such reluctance from the World Bank or the Inter-American Loan Fund. Guyana also claims there has been an increase in Brazilian troop strength on the southern border; Hillenbrand found no signs of tension...
...light of pop ethology and sociobiology, the Yãnomamö are seen not only as "wild Indians" but as one short step away from a baboon troop. The familiar tendency to look upon other groups of people as being less fully human than ourselves here masquerades as science...
Assad's most likely course would seem to be a continuation of the cautious moves he has made throughout the crisis-a mix of political pressure and persuasion, backed by a limited troop presence inside Lebanon. Though White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen last week praised Syria for "playing a constructive role" in Lebanon, Damascus was emphatic in putting down suggestions that Assad had received from Washington a "green light" for greater military intervention. As one Syrian official recently put it, "We only want to be the gendarme...