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...rest of Lebanon also seemed like one long battlefront. After the Tyre bombing, which killed 28 Israelis and 32 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli army closed two bridges across the Awali River, its northern defense line in Lebanon, in effect sealing off the south from the rest of the country. Shi'ite Muslim leaders responded by calling a one-day general strike, shutting down nearly all stores and banks. The Israelis reopened the bridges after four days, but vehicles were inspected so painstakingly that traffic was reduced to a trickle...
...enormous retrospective exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 made it possible for the first time to see the myriad elements of his work all together and in perspective. He had been dead seven years, but the Museum of Modern Art's splendid show was, as much as any battlefront communiqué, news...
...chips, which accounted for 22% of last year's $14.6 billion in semiconductor sales worldwide. Japanese companies startled the U.S. industry by capturing 70% of the market for the bestseling 64K RAM (for random-access memory), a chip that can store 65,536 bits of information. Now the battlefront is moving to the next generation of chips: a 256K RAM, which has four times the memory capacity of the 64K and is expected to generate annual sales of up to $3.5 billion by 1987. At least six Japanese companies, led by Hitachi and Fujitsu, have shown samples...
...military trainers and restive officers of the Salvadoran armed forces. An astute politician, Garcia had been helpful to the U.S. in supporting El Salvador's land-reform program and curbing the excesses of right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. But on the antiguerrilla battlefront, Garcia fought what for its cushy hours became known as a 9-to-5 war. He ignored U.S. advice to use aggressive small-unit patrolling tactics against the rebels, and instead sent major units of the 24,000-member Salvadoran army on wasteful sweeps through the countryside...
From the contra side of the shifting battlefront, the opposite seemed to be true. TIME has learned that, for the first time last week, members of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), a grouping of conservative and moderate Nicaraguans combined with former members of the Somoza National Guard, began coordinating their northern actions with another group operating in the country's south. Meanwhile, more than 175 Miskito Indians from Nicaragua's Atlantic coast have completed a rebel training course that will help them to lead as many as 8,000 of their alienated fellow Indians into battle against...