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Throughout Lebanon last week, the search for peace suffered a series of setbacks. A five-day truce between P.L.O. factions ended abruptly on Tuesday when rebel forces attacked and seized the Baddawi camp, causing hundreds of deaths and forcing Arafat and some 4,000 troops still loyal to him to seek refuge in the heart of Tripoli. In Beirut, 45 miles to the south, an eight-week truce was frequently violated as "phantom artillerymen," presumably Druze, shelled predominantly Christian East Beirut and sporadically hit parts of the Muslim western quarters as well. The continuing peace negotiations among Lebanon...
...Treetops one day 31 years ago that then Princess Elizabeth received the news her father King George VI had died and she had acceded to the British throne. As she hurried off for London, the new Queen vowed to come back some day to the legendary lodge in central Kenya. Elizabeth II, 57, fulfilled that promise last week by making the popular game-viewing spot part of a jubilant five-day state visit to Kenya. The Queen remembered her first visit well enough to note changes, commenting on the loss of trees and inspecting the ruins of the original lodge...
Newly elected mayors attending a five-day "crush course" on tradition at the Kennedy School of Government said yesterday that their chief hurdle assuming office would he to build coalitions among city council members with differing Philippians...
Twenty-two of the nation's newly elected mayors gathered at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (IOP) last sight to begin a five-day "crash course" preparing them to run cities...
...spring of 1983 the Administration began drafting new guidelines for "dual use" technology-that is, items that have both military and civilian capabilities. Finally, during Weinberger's five-day trip last week, the Defense Secretary briefed the Chinese on these new guidelines. Peking is still subject to U.S. laws regarding the "end use" of such technology (so that it will not be passed on to other users, like North Korea). But the eventual net effect of the reclassification and the new guidelines should be to allow Peking to import a considerably broader range of products, including computers...