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First, an assassin's bomb killed Lebanon's President-elect Bashir Gemayel only days before he was to have taken office. Israeli tanks thereupon rolled into West Beirut, presumably to keep the fratricidal factions in the long-suffering nation from one another's throats. And then, with the Israelis supposedly in control, a ghastly massacre took place. A still undetermined number of Palestinian refugees, most of them unarmed civilians, including women and children, were found shot to death in two camps in Beirut at week's end. Survivors claimed that the Christian militia, long allied with...
...like worry. But the decision this time seemed both easy and logical. Simply put, a Computers section added up. As TIME said in its 1978 cover story "The Computer Society," the new microtechnology is akin in significance to the moment prehistoric man first wrapped his fingers around a rock, thereupon enormously improving his competitive advantage against nature by becoming a user of tools. Computers constitute yet another quantum leap in the ability to cope with the world. This week's cover, "The Computer Generation," is in part the story of young minds wrapping themselves around their computer consoles every...
...along the roads and highways" in the event of a U.S. invasion, COSEP leaders reacted. In an open letter, they charged that "the national economy shows no signs of recuperation, social peace has not been found, the country finds itself in spiraling debt, with no foreseeable end." The directorate thereupon threw four COSEP leaders in jail, along with 22 Communists...
During a late-night session of the Illinois senate last week, Mark Rhoads, the honorable member from Western Springs, rose to address Philip Rock, esteemed president of the chamber. "You son of a bitch," Rhoads roared. He thereupon threw aside his red leather chair, ripped the microphone from his desk and stormed toward Rock with all deliberate speed. A colleague, however, stepped in Rhoads' path and slugged him. The pair tussled for several moments before they were pulled apart. It was the first time that violence had marred the orderly processes of the Illinois legislature since, um ... ten days...
...novel addict named Ludmilla, also known as the Other Reader. In the course of tracking down clues, the readers interview a senescent professor, an editor of a publishing house who talks like a rejection slip and a confirmed nonreader who glues books shut and applies a coat of varnish, thereupon producing pop sculptures...