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...believed to be a terrorist unit within Hizballah, want to create in Lebanon an Iranian-style Islamic republic. The mainstream Amal, by contrast, wants to ensure that the Shi'ites have a major role in the Lebanon that eventually emerges from the destruction and chaos of the past eleven years...
What Burrows will not change is the Army's religious philosophy or its military structure. The revival-minded Protestant group holds strictly to an eleven-point orthodox statement of doctrine and a literal interpretation of the Bible. It is so insistent upon simplicity in worship that it shuns all services of baptism and communion...
...rise, promptly began their ascent by following a cable that led up to the Virazon. Reaching a white marker cylinder at the 20-ft. depth, they stopped, treading water for three minutes, before rising again to a second marker, at the 10-ft. level. There they waited for eleven minutes, passing the time by penciling messages to each other on a roughened Plexiglas tablet. The scheduled pauses were decompression stops that allowed the excess dissolved nitrogen to leave their bodies gradually; in a faster ascent, the nitrogen would have come out of solution too rapidly, forming gas bubbles...
Father Jenco's most joyous moment came on his second morning in West Germany, when he was reunited with eleven members of his family who had flown from the U.S. aboard an Air Force jet. When the priest entered the hospital room in which the group had gathered, his brother John later recalled, "we all sort of melted in our tracks. Then there was all this squeezing and crying." John's first words to his long-lost brother: "I love you, and please forgive me for anything that I have ever done wrong to you." As they talked, the priest...
Czechoslovakia's best-known defector went home last week. Eleven years after leaving her homeland, Tennis Superstar Martina Navratilova, 29, headed the top-seeded U.S. team as it arrived in Prague for the Federation Cup, the women's equivalent of the all-male Davis Cup. Local media ignored her, but the applause that greeted her appearance at the opening ceremonies -- where she wept during the playing of the national anthem -- more than compensated. "I think it showed that the people here still remember me and that they like me," she told a press conference. "Not because I have come back...