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...Israeli government called a "preventive measure," was the most severe assault against Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon in more than two years. As if to emphasize the significance of the attack, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who is Israel's Acting Defense Minister, spent part of the night at command headquarters for the operation in the border town of Metulla. Coincidentally, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, was directing the defense both in the field and from his headquarters in Beirut. At the end of the raid, Israeli forces withdrew, claiming that they had killed at least...
Perhaps nothing has alarmed whites and heightened racial tensions more than he controversy surrounding General Walls. He resigned his command last month in the midst of a crucial effort to fuse the white-officered Rhodesian forces with the two guerrilla armies that had opposed them during the seven-year civil war, Mugabe's ZANLA and Home Affairs Minister Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA. When Mugabe asked Walls to head the new integrated army in March, the Rhodesian-born soldier, 54, accepted the assignment with apparent enthusiasm; but he suddenly quit after less than four months and went on preretirement...
...fools for Christ's sake" because God has "made foolish the wisdom of the world." They discern multilayered analogies between the clown and Christ: the clown's joy in living and mimed delight in simple things, like the scent of a flower, for instance, recall Jesus' command to "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow." The simplicity and childlike persistence of the clown can have a special meaning for Christians. "The clown refuses to accept the limits of the possible," explains Tim Kehl, a professional clown and magician who is also a United Church...
...modifies the doctrine of how the nation plans to respond to a Soviet nuclear strike. Brown is expected to say that in the future, more of the Pentagon's land-based Minuteman ICBMS and B-52 bombers will be targeted at Soviet military installations and political and military command centers, as well as at major cities. Arms experts call this targeting concept "counterforce" because it is designed primarily to destroy the enemy's forces rather than large numbers of civilians. In a note to the NATO allies two weeks ago, outlining the policy, Brown explained...
Casablancas also realized that the young Venuses who vend every imaginable product in print and on TV could command far higher rates than they were getting. The hourly charge for a top model has trebled (up to $300 an hour) in the past three years. Instead of setting fixed fees for a model's time, Casablancas started negotiating each booking with a canny perception of the client's particular needs and the girl's availability. The whole industry has had to follow suit, with the result that many models' incomes and clients' budgets have skyrocketed...