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Indeed they are, as are the people of Ain et Tine and other shell-shocked Christian towns that are not surrounded. But then so are the people of Aley and Ain Zhalta and other Druze towns, all prisoners of collective folk memories in which rights and wrongs are forever remembered. "We are the first people of Lebanon," says a Druze village elder, referring to his sect, which broke away from Islam in the 11th century (see box). "We cannot be ignored. We respect the rights of others, but they must respect our rights...
...character of Eddie, Limonov attempts to demonstrate this socio-political viewpoint carried to the nth degree. With his version of what he calls Russian Maximalism he gives us minimal insight; his social analysis is old and boring, and he leaves the reader with only a shell of bizarre acts and feelings without cohesion...
Marchais's words were an open indication of the increasing strain between the French Communists' allegiance to Moscow and their loyalty to the Mitterrand government. "Pro-Sovietism is like an old shell that won't break off," said a Parisian woman who is married to a Communist journalist. "Party leaders are incapable of telling the U.S.S.R. to go to hell when they [the Soviets] do outrageous things...
Throughout the week, the position of the multinational force was becoming increasingly precarious. U.S. Marines at Beirut airport spent most of Monday night in their bunkers after rockets and artillery shells began to land on the encampment. Dawn was scarcely an hour away when a rocket crashed into a bunker in Alpha Company's position to the east of the airport runway, killing Corporal Pedro Valle Ramos of San Juan, P.R., and Lance Corporal Randy Clark of Minong, Wis. The following day, an artillery shell struck the French military headquarters in West Beirut, killing Lieut. Colonel Louis Sahler...
Levin does not add substantially to the public record about DeLorean's arrest for cocaine dealing, but the author makes a strong case for DeLorean's systematic looting of his infant firm. Levin charges that he used a shell corporation in Geneva called GPD Services to siphon off $17.65 million. No trace of the money has turned up, but the suspicion is that DeLorean walked away with at least some...