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When Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin visited the occupied West Bank last week, he was taken to task by a local Palestinian Arab. "If the (Jewish) settlers start beating our boys, Israeli soldiers watch and do nothing," complained Abdullah Sa'afin, 24. "But if one of our boys throws a stone, we get live bullets directed at the chests of our children...
...influx of new funds, the contra arsenal is expected to improve over the next six weeks. Pentagon officials say they can provide Stinger and Redeye surface-to-air missiles to combat the Sandinistas' estimated 60 Soviet armored helicopters; the contras, however, may opt to buy cheaper, Soviet- built SA-7s on the international arms market. U.S. officials hope to persuade the contras to switch from the pressure-triggered mines they have been using to explosives that have to be detonated by remote control, thereby giving the rebels control over specific targets. "Pressure mines kill too indiscriminately," says one. "Pictures...
...Washington Post, though, did not have muchtrouble defining the event. The Post will run its350th stories in the paper's "Style" pages. "It'sa ceremonial event, and that's where we coverceremonial events," says Mary Hadar, the Post'sstyle editor...
Once again emergency aid had become a hostage to politics and war. Wau's always depleted cupboard began emptying fast two weeks ago when rebels using a Soviet SA-7 missile shot down a twin-engine Sudan Airways passenger plane as it took off from the southern town of Malakal for Khartoum. The attack, which killed all 63 persons aboard, caused international relief agencies to suspend food shipments to southern Sudan, where some 2 million people face death by starvation. The shooting took place just one day after the Sudanese People's Liberation Army had warned that "any plane, military...
...despite all of these credentials, Walkeraccepted an invitation from Harvard last year toplan the gala stadium concert. The former Directorof Entertainment at Disneyland says that he doesnot think of coming to Harvard as taking a stepdown. "Harvard's been so much to the nation. It'sa great honor to produce their 350th and it's achallenge because there are so many differentideas...