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...than 6,000 had left over the past year of strife. Still, Washington's order did not amount to outright evacuation; it simply "strongly urged" Americans to leave−part of a relatively low-key approach that envisaged the use of U.S. military force only as a last resort. The President called the killings a "senseless, outrageous brutality," but he also declared that the U.S. would not be "deterred from its search for peace by these murders." Throughout, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was in touch with Middle East leaders by cable, urging safe passage for any American...
When all this glitter is draped over a strong story line, the effect is impressive. Lorna is a powerful vision of a woman's physical and mental collapse at an out-of-the-way Mexican resort. Nor does Tryon stint on nostalgia. Skillfully he conjures up the well-nigh irresistible grandeur that prewar Hollywood displayed to the world when "people were driven by their liveried chauffeurs in Duesenbergs . . . when polo matches were played at Will Rogers' ranch and Gable danced with Lombard at the Trocadero...
...million to Margaret Housen for contracting gonorrhea. They have opened a veritable Pandora's box of litigation. Using their scale, contracting syphilis could bring a lucky person $750,000. Thanks to their precedent, purchasing no-fault sex insurance will become mandatory at puberty. Pity the uninsured who must resort to medical treatment rather than cashing in at the courthouse...
...town of Sofar, 45 minutes' driving time from Beirut in the cool Lebanon mountains, has long been a favorite summer resort, both for wealthy Lebanese and Arabs from neighboring lands. It was there last week that the advancing Syrians met their first real resistance. On Tuesday, reports Wynn, the town was battle-scarred. Along the Beirut-Damascus highway, corrugated shutters of shop after shop were curled up from the shelling. Many of the cypress trees that once sheltered vacationing strollers had been smashed to splinters. Testimony to the Palestinian resistance was provided by three burned-out tanks that...
...Jeeps. Along the route I saw at least 200 tanks, and no doubt many more were parked beyond my vision. About a dozen miles from Beirut, I walked to a point where a phalanx of tanks lined the rim of a hill, their guns pointing down to another resort town, Bhamdoun. A Syrian officer stood atop one of the tanks, and, as we talked, machine guns mounted on the next tank began blazing away. Leftist forces still held Bhamdoun, and the Syrians were shooting at any suspicious movements to keep them off balance...