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...abandoned school. Seven people died, including two soldiers. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Druze villagers clashed with a Lebanese army patrol. The toll: two dead and 18 wounded. The last incident carried ominous implications since the Lebanese army is expected to guard the area when Israeli troops withdraw to more defensible positions, a move the Israelis are expected to make shortly...
...come of it. The results seem to have lived down to his expectations fully. In Damascus, Syrian President Hafez Assad told the Secretary of State privately what he has been saying publicly for two months: Syria adamantly opposes the agreement worked out last May calling for Israel to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, and therefore Syria refuses to pull out its own forces. Admitted Shultz at trip's end: "I can't point to any substantive achievement...
...retired General Edwin A. Walker, who was stirring up the crowd against Meredith, could be arrested (Walker was). "Imagine that son of a bitch having been commander of a division," Kennedy said. In a series of telephone calls with Barnett, Kennedy firmly rebuffed the Governor's plea to withdraw Meredith from the campus...
...reduce casualties, the Israelis could stage a unilateral withdrawal to more defensible positions in the south. Such a tactic would probably lead to the partition of Lebanon, with Israel occupying the south and the Syrians remaining embedded in parts of the north and east. The Begin government may eventually take that step, but for the moment it is fighting off all opposition efforts to bring about a partial withdrawal, arguing that this could only make the Syrians more intransigent. Says Defense Minister Moshe Arens: "If the Syrians reach the conclusion that Israel may withdraw unilaterally, then they will certainly...
...life's delightful juxtapositions, reasonable people are capable of making memories of events that occurred years before they were born, never letting a technicality that slight exclude them from an argument as rich as the "long count" fight of 1927. Failing to withdraw to a neutral corner, as a new rule required after knockdowns, Dempsey inadvertently allowed Tunney perhaps 14 seconds to defog his head in the seventh round and go on to outpoint Jack for a second time. "The best thing that ever happened to both of us was the long count," Dempsey said a few years...