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Suddenly, savagely, street violence and rioting erupted last week throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Arab youths threw stones at Israeli soldiers, who responded with rifle fire and tear gas. Roadways were blocked by burning tires and other rubble. City streets emptied, except for the occasional patrol of red-bereted Israeli paratroopers. As the turmoil spread, seven Arabs and one Israeli soldier were killed, dozens of Arabs and soldiers were injured, and hundreds were arrested. The demonstrations were the fiercest since the Israelis occupied the area 15 years ago during the Six-Day War, and the stakes...
Italy was also the first European country to agree to join the multinational force that will patrol in the Sinai Peninsula after Israel's withdrawal on April 25. Anxious to dissociate themselves from U.S. policy in the Middle East, other allies hesitated for months...
...similar system of matching codes and dual-key procedures applies aboard the 15 or so U.S. nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines that are on 70-day patrol at any given time. They are always submerged, observing radio silence, and receive a stream of messages by means of a 2,400-ft. antenna that the boat trails above and behind it, just below the ocean surface. Usually this incoming traffic consists of routine instructions, equipment tests and 40-word "familygrams" for the crew. But the message could also be a much shorter, infinitely
Reading The West Bank Story, we follow Halabi and his camera crew as they criss-cross the region. In Ramallah, thousands of angry demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags surge down the main street protesting the Israeli occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon...
...Salvadoran troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Benning, Ga. The Pentagon hopes that the course will solve one key weakness of the army: a lack of skilled young leaders to command small units. Says one U.S. military analyst: "The basic Salvadoran unit isn't trained to patrol. It doesn't ambush. It doesn't harass. It doesn't pursue. They've never