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...province's citizens have vivid, unpleasant memories of the last incursion. Says one European professional who befriended the tigers while living under their 1977 occupation: "They said this would be another Viet Nam. They told us frankly they were not secessionists but an army of liberation whose aim was to take over the whole of Zaïre. All of us were told that if we were still here when they returned, it would be the end of us. We would then be considered pro-Mobutu. Last year when the guerrillas came in, they were welcomed by the people...
Complaints are not ordinarily aimed directly at Sadat but at prominent people close to him. Among the prime targets is Osman Ahmed Osman, the millionaire contractor whose son Mahmud is married to Sadat's daughter Jihan. Osman has a brilliant record as a builder-he was chief contractor for the Aswan High Dam, and did much of the reconstruction of the ruined Suez Canal zone-but his vast wealth and his influence over Sadat invite attacks by the opposition, mainly on corruption charges. Because Osman is his closest friend and adviser, Sadat knows that these attacks are really aimed...
Fedayeen on both sides of the Litani seemed particularly bitter about the French troops. 'They came in thinking this was Algeria," complained a young commander of the P.F.L.P., "and that they could knock people around as they pleased." For their part, the French, whose headquarters are just south of Tyre but who are not permitted by the Palestinians to enter the city itself, spoke bitterly about what they called "the lies" being spread about them. Clearly, the French paratroopers have been stunned by the serious wounding of their commander, Colonel Jean-Germain Salvan, in a fight with a Palestinian...
...seemed not to matter at all. Last week the royal court in Amman announced that Jordan's King Hussein had "chosen," as his "life partner" and fourth wife, Washington-born Elizabeth (Lisa) Halaby. She is the daughter of Najeeb Halaby, onetime Federal Aviation Administrator and Pan Am president whose forebears were Syrians. The wedding is expected to take place some time next month...
Stepak decided to sue after learning of the case brought by Engineer Allan Bakke, whose "reverse discrimination" complaint against the medical school of the University of California at Davis is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Bakke, who is white, charges that he was unconstitutionally discriminated against when he applied for medical school, because Davis reserved 16 places in its entering class for racial-minority students. While Bakke sweats out the decision, Asar Stepak is waiting too. And his is just one of a growing number of reverse-discrimination cases that have been slowed or stalled in the lower courts...