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...craggy mountains flanking the Bekaa Valley, fresh Hizballah recruits are undergoing monthlong basic training sessions involving 20-mile (32-km) route marches with rifles, ammunition and rock-filled backpacks. A year ago, Salem, a university student and Hizballah militant, was spending alternate weeks patrolling Lebanon's southern border with Israel. Now he regularly enrolls for refresher training courses in the Bekaa. The training camps are hidden in remote wooded areas, with no permanent structures to give away their presence to Israeli jets and drones overhead. The fighters are taught how to strip, handle and shoot weapons, plant roadside bombs, navigate...
...South, angry over LBJ's civil rights efforts, was smoldering when she whistle-stopped from Virginia to New Orleans on the Lady Bird Special, at first enduring catcalls and hostile placards ("Fly Away Black Bird") but the same soft tolerance she used on her husband she used on the southern crowds: "In this country we have many viewpoints. You are entitled to yours. Right now I am entitled to mine." By New Orleans the stories of her sweet courage had turned the risky political journey into a roar of approval and pride...
...pretty as a lady bird" and Lady Bird she was for the rest of her life. A large portrait of her wearing a long, billowing pale blue dress, carrying a broad-brimmed hat amid a field of Texas bluebonnets stands in the LBJ Library, capturing both that southern gentility and her passion for nature. But her lilting, soft and round East Texas accent, her passion for natural beauty and her devotion to a man some found loud and crude, masked a steeliness that served both her and her family well...
...major difficulty we are going to face for sure is this kind of terrorist attack because even if we have no idea yet who could be the perpetrators... another attack can come," Major General Claudio Graziano, UNIFIL's commander, told TIME in an interview at his headquarters in the southern coastal village of Naqoura...
...today stands at some 13,500 troops drawn from 30 nations, including European heavyweights such as France, Italy and Spain. It even includes a naval component to prevent arms being smuggled into Lebanon by sea. UNIFIL's mandate is to assist the Lebanese army in securing Lebanon's volatile southern frontier in accordance with U.N. Resolution 1701, which helped end last summer's 34-day war. "The mission has been, by and large, highly successful... because not only has it been the quietest time in the last 40 years maybe [along the Lebanon-Israel border] but what's more...