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...battles flared up even as the committee struggled for ways to end the current skirmishing and solve the religious and class differences that underlay the shooting. Bulldozers had hardly cleared away old rubble from previous fighting when debris came crashing down into the streets from new explosions. Random incidents, typical of the insanity that stalks Lebanon today, added to the intensity of the fighting. Two mortar rounds, apparently fired on aim less trajectories from undisclosed positions, hit a street in one of Beirut's Moslem quarters where harried housewives had queued up to buy bread; 24 were killed...
Rightists' Demands. If the random killings continue, the survival of Arias' government will come into question. "As you can see," admitted an aide to the Premier last week, "matters are not under control." Indeed, at a pro-Franco rally in Valencia, only one speaker mentioned the Premier. Unless Arias can contain the terror, Spanish rightists will demand a tougher anti-reform government-perhaps even a military regime...
...book's thesis, startling to those who have not closely followed recent trends in the feminist movement: rape is not a random act by deviant or troubled men, but a worldwide social mechanism by which men control women. Says Brownmiller: "It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Rather than society's aberrants or 'spoilers of purity,' men who commit rape have served in effect as front-line masculine shock troops, terrorist guerrillas in the longest sustained battle the world...
...pans the gloomy landscape that characterized the era. While he often contrasts the grim reality of life during the Depression with such fanciful films as Gold Diggers of 1933, starring Ginger Rogers, he uses similar clippings to demonstrate a haunting similarity between fiction and fact in the 1930s. Random scenes from King Kong (1932-33), for example, invite a comparison of the fright inspired in New York subway passengers by the ravages of an overgrrown ape to the frenzied fear of bank failures felt by investors during the Depression...
...shrug that indicates she feels no regret. After this ten-year long attempt to finish school, Scarf turned to writing children's books because of what she saw as a need for some sort of personal fulfillment. "I sent chapters of a children's book I had written to Random House and they offered me a contract, so I finally dropped out of school altogether...