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...Palestinian and Syrian military positions along the Beirut-Damascus highway, also hitting several Druze and Christian villages in the Chouf Mountains. The Israelis were angrily striking out at some of their enemies, though not necessarily the ones who had staged the terrorist raid. Islamic Jihad (Holy War), a virtually unknown organization that may be Shi'ite and may have links to the fanatical organization that staged the murderous strikes on U.S. and French positions in Beirut, claimed responsibility for the latest attack...
...August 21, the returning leader was gunned down by an unknown assassin as he stepped off an airplane in Manila. Aquino faced a life-imprisonment sentence under the Marcos regime. Marcos suspended the sentence three years ago to allow Aquino to come to the United States for an operation...
...fighting was far from over. An additional 400 Cubans, it turned out, plus an unknown number of Grenadian soldiers and militiamen, continued to rattle the Rangers with sniper and mortar fire. They had isolated the medical school's Grand Anse campus from its True Blue buildings. They roamed the back streets of St. George's, pounding on doors, and melted up into the hills, seeking either hiding or sniper sites. They continued to control the capital's small harbor...
HERO JOHN GLENN could be the next President of the United States, but relative unknown Chuck Yeager should be. That is the true message of The Right Stuff--a message missed by those who think that the film will do more for the former astronaut's Oval Office ambitions than the rather uninspiring candidate himself...
...ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE of an omnipresent Big Brother intrigued and frightened the reader of the 1940's and 1950's. Today, we casually dismiss such scenarios as fanciful tales or impossibilities. But unknown to most Americans, the Administration has proposed a sweeping plan to monitor the public activities of government officials on a scale unprecedented in our history. Last week, the Senate wisely delayed the implementation of the President's controversial directive to subject federal employees to random lie detector tests and lifelong censorship. The rule (which will now go into effect next April) would have applied to officials cleared...