Word: groups
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...illustrates the difficulties of the security issue than the spiral of violence and counterviolence that has whiplashed the West Bank in recent weeks. A day after a Palestinian youth was shot and killed in a schoolyard scuffle with Israeli soldiers, Arab terrorists two weeks ago opened fire on a group of Jewish settlers returning from evening prayers in the city of Hebron, killing six and wounding 16. In retaliation, Israeli commandos last week staged two coastal raids into southern Lebanon. They ambushed a Jeep carrying four commandos of the Palestine Liberation Organization and killed four civilians in another car near...
Backe, who had headed the CBS Publishing Group before he became president, had won a reputation as a deft manager who, among other things, brought about a needed reorganization of the broadcasting division. Paley watchers had varying theories on what soured the boss on Backe. Some CBS insiders believe Paley had been considering replacing Backe for more than a year, because he felt Backe lacked the "vision" he wanted in a chief executive officer. Others saw a more visceral reason. "Paley only feels threatened when his president achieves something," says Anthony Hoffman, entertainment-industry analyst at the Bache Halsey Stuart...
...most vivid of these brief theater pieces is The Conference of the Birds. Questing for a cogent purpose in life, a group of brave birds take wing on a perilous journey to find their true king, the Simorgh. The few survivors find that the quest was a moral lesson-to look for the Simorgh within themselves. The playgoers' reward is the way the actors become birds, with gold, red and white beaks, and swatches of silk plumage...
...popular pastime in the Himalayas, but when World Bank President Robert McNamara, 63, comes along, that obviously makes it a star trek. McNamara's band, on his second visit to Nepal, includes Wife Margaret, seven friends, five Sherpa guides, 26 porters, a Tibetan pony and a yak. The group is making two treks, one a 60-mile walk reaching 15,000-ft. altitudes, the other a 50-mile hike at even higher levels. Exults McNamara: "For people who live at sea level, high altitudes exact their toll. You think the top of your head is going to separate from...
DIED. Leonard Woods Labaree, 82, former Farnam Professor of History at Yale University, where he headed the ambitious project of collecting, annotating and publishing all of Benjamin Franklin's surviving papers; in Northford, Conn. From 1954 until his retirement 15 years later, Labaree was in charge of a group of scholars who assembled copies of 27,800 manuscript documents, then transcribed and edited the first 14 volumes (including Franklin's spirited, salty Autobiography) of a collection that may run to 40 volumes when completed...