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...P.L.O.'s tactics, I find the present situation in Lebanon [July 26] totally incomprehensible. It strikes me as bizarre to kill and wound countless numbers of women and children in order to get the 6,000 terrorists safely loaded on a bus bound for Syria or parts unknown. I suspect that if Menachem Begin were a surgeon, he'd kill the patient and save the cancer...
With everything seemingly under control, the hijackers planted sticks of explosives in the toilet compartment, then benignly granted the request of the steward that he be allowed to take the copilot back to the second cabin and treat his minor wounds. That was a mistake. As the pilot, unknown to the rebels, began to circle over Shanghai, the copilot and steward started to plot in whispers with nearby Chinese passengers. The plane continued to circle for 2½ hr., until it was so low on fuel that the air conditioning went off and the pilot cut two of the engines...
Over discreetly served drinks, old Chautauquans love to startle visitors with the information that deeds to property within the gate of the institution still give the management the right (never enforced) to buy back houses in which liquor has been detected. Self-satisfaction is not unknown here, and the degree to which Chautauqua is Waspy, churchy and arty recalls an era when culture in the U.S. was a conspiracy between the pastors and the women, and manly men sulked as they were dragged to concerts...
...that had been placed in Warsaw's Victory Square to honor Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Polish Primate who died last year. It was the fourth time that the authorities had swept away the cross. Later in the day, as special honor guards marched past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Victory Square, squads of the ZOMO security forces, who have frequently been used to break up demonstrations, waited in the side streets with their riot gear and water cannons. Said a middle-aged steelworker: "How can you believe in the government's good intentions when you have...
...Most are never bothered by the virus again, though it will linger in their nervous systems for the rest of their lives. Some will not be so lucky. They will be victims of shingles, a painful, blistering rash that is triggered in adults when, for reasons unknown, the varicella-zoster virus reawakens...