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...more clearcut example of trendiness is the Sid Vicious reincarnation stationed between the stacks in Lamont. The Punk and Ivy League lifestyles are not only incongruous, they are also mutually exclusive: No genuinely sordid and cynical Punker worth his razor blades would spend four years on the grounds of an alligator stronghold studying towards a Bachelor...
...Saddam Hussein is going to fall," says the Ayatullah, "and neither America nor any other power can keep him in office." Maybe not. But what is worrying is that neither the U.S. nor any other power may be able to prevent two bitter enemies from turning their particularly vicious regional war into a theater of international conflict. -By William E. Smith...
Gemayel's troops had lost control of West Beirut to the Shi'ite and Druze militias in a vicious battle the week before, and the rout south of the city left his government controlling little more than Christian East Beirut. The Muslims were expected to make their next major thrust at Suq al Gharb in the mountains east of Beirut, where the Lebanese Army held a strategic position overlooking the presidential palace at Baabda, just outside the capital. Fighting did break out around Suq al Gharb and along the "green line" separating West and East Beirut...
...Sarid's speech did to Saunders' address. Although pre-prepared, Yossi Sarid's speech appeared to be a direct response to Saunders' lecture. Said Sarid, after emphasizing the essential interest that Israel also has in solving the Palestinian problem: "We, the moderates, must deliver the two nations from the vicious circle of just claims... When just claims face just claims, the two sides become involved in a sterile, trite, endless debate; who ought to take the first step, who will be the first to recognize the other? Many long years have been lost over this pointless argument. Now, the time...
...fighting escalated into a vicious struggle for all of West Beirut. Amal forces were joined by Druze fighters and members of the Murabitun, a left-wing militia that was thought to have disbanded after the Israeli withdrawal from West Beirut. At 1:30 p.m. on Monday, the army declared a curfew and warned that anyone found on the streets would be "shot without warning...