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...victory of Hizballah came after it had suffered a series of military setbacks in Shi'ite-dominated Southern Lebanon, first at the hands of Amal, then Israel, which killed as many as 40 of its guerrillas in a raid two weeks ago. Hizballah's new power will complicate efforts to free the 16 remaining foreign hostages in Lebanon, most of whom are thought to be held in the Beirut suburbs by kidnapers with ties to the militant Shi'ite faction...
...Tampopo the amount of unpredictably bad behavior occasioned by the pursuit of a great recipe was funny and surreal. In A Taxing Woman, where the subject is money, these outbursts are more shocking than risible, especially when Ryoko's revenue-agent colleagues eventually stage a mass raid on Gondo's home and demonstrate they are every bit as mad in their pursuit of justice as he is in defense of miserliness...
Police crackdowns throughout the country have had negligible impact. In a highly touted weekend-long raid of drug-dealing gangs in Los Angeles last month, police arrested 1,453 people, including 315 juveniles. Half had to be released for lack of evidence. The frequent raids in Los Angeles have provoked a backlash among civil libertarians, who accuse the police of busting any young man who happens to be black or Hispanic...
...course more than America's story-spinning uncle; he was the canniest businessman in Hollywood. His credo might have been the Jesuits': Give me a child before he's seven, and he will be mine for life. Once this shaman-showman had seized kids' minds, he could raid their piggy banks. And on that mountain of pennies he could build an empire. His cartoons and feature films sired comic books, toys, hit songs (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, When You Wish upon a Star, Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah) and the ubiquitous Mickey Mouse watch. While other...
...Wazir has been associated with two particularly brutal attacks: the 1975 takeover of the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv, which resulted in 18 deaths, and a 1978 coastal raid that left a trail of 45 dead bodies from Haifa to Tel Aviv. He is also believed to have helped direct the uprising in the occupied territories. Israeli authorities pointed an accusing finger at al-Wazir last March, following the hijacking of a bus in southern Israel that claimed the lives of three Israeli civilians. At the time, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir vowed, "Our hand will bring to justice those...