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...simultaneously high and low points involve hitting the dirt: at the southern end of the airport compound, snipers are as close as 150 yds., and incoming grenades and light rockets occasionally fall near by. At night it is cool and damp. The lush sound of the Mediterranean surf is punctuated by the regular whump of outgoing mortar rounds aimed into the Chouf foothills and, every ten minutes or so, the clatter of a Lebanese Army .50-cal. machine gun firing at Druze militiamen and their allies. Each morning before 8 a.m. the troops finish breakfast (eggs to order, French toast...
...resources. Dupree also played basketball, ran track and pitched for several baseball teams, though he was banned from Little League for being "too good." But his specialty was running with a football. The first time Dupree touched a football in a high school game, he returned a kick 75 yds. for a touchdown...
...Oklahoma last season he was much more than that, gaining 905 yds. rushing, the record for a Sooner freshman. But it was not enough for Coach Barry Switzer. Dupree scored on runs of 63 yds. against Texas, 75 against Kansas, 30 against Oklahoma State, 80 against Kansas State, 70 against Missouri and 86 against Nebraska. He also returned a punt 77 yds. against Colorado. However, Switzer judged Dupree to be fat (233 lbs.) and lazy, and the coach seemed to blame him personally for a 32-21 loss to Arizona State in the Fiesta Bowl. "He gained 239 yards," Switzer...
...police reconstructed it, all five were abducted from the restaurant following an after-hours robbery the weekend before last. The thieves apparently ordered the five to walk 120 yds. down an oilfield service road and lie face down side by side. Then they pumped bullets into their victims' backs and heads, as in a gangland execution. One of the victims, Opie Ann Hughes, 39, may have tried to flee; her body, clad in a Kentucky Fried Chicken uniform, was some 50 yds. away from the others...
...continued to collect the debris from Flight 007. A five-ship U.S. task force searched international waters for the "black boxes" from the airliner that contain vital flight information. Near by, a Soviet fleet was doing the same thing. At times, ships from the two fleets came within 500 yds. of each other, engaging in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation...