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...politicians vainly sought a compromise that would, in the words of President Charles Helou, allow Lebanon to "support this just struggle within our sovereignty and integrity"?in other words, without incurring Israel's wrath. Pushing the issue, commandos last week attacked a police post and a key road junction in southern Lebanon, and in the brief battles two Lebanese soldiers and seven commandos died. Al-Fatah Commander Arafat flew to Beirut to negotiate a truce. No matter what the outcome, Lebanon will almost certainly be the loser...
According to a recent estimate, 21% of skilled blue-collar workers and 16% of professional employees are on payrolls that rely on military spending. Entire communities depend almost totally on a military installation, defense plants, or both. Junction City, Kans. (pop. 20,500), lives off Fort Riley. The post pumps $143 million into the state's economy, most of it in the Junction City area. When an Army division left in 1965, business plummeted...
...slide up. Hill's technique, which is now being adopted by many other surgeons, involves a more elaborate procedure: stitching part of the stomach to form an internal flap that prevents reflux. Ligaments and other tissues are attached where the gullet joins the stomach, so that this junction is anchored permanently below the diaphragm...
Even so, the strategy of noncontace lasted only up to a point. Some of the fiercest close-in fighting came at Landing Zone Grant, a U.S. fire-support base in III Corps near Saigon. The camp was hastily installed last January to block a vital junction in the Viet Cong's "Saigon River" infiltration route from Cambodia. Two weeks after the offensive began, no fewer than 800 Communist troops stormed Landing Zone Grant, charging through three rows of concertina barbed wire. In the battle, a rocket crashed into the command post, killing the base commander, Lieut. Colonel Peter Gorvad...
...advocacy of the reconstitution of the 50 states into twelve political entities by the Center for Democratic Studies at Santa Barbara has an amicus curiae in the U.S. Constitution itself. Article IV, Section 3 says that the "junction of states" is not prohibited if approved by the Congress and the states concerned...