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...show trial, the largest in Egypt's modern history. The makeshift courtroom is an exhibition hall at the Cairo fairgrounds, where 280 prisoners are on display in huge steel cages. Another 20 defendants are still at large, and two have died in prison. Most of the prisoners are accused of being members of a Muslim fundamentalist group known as al Jihad (Holy War), and many are linked with the violence that broke out in the Upper Egyptian city of Asyut following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6, 1981. Nineteen of the defendants were among those sentenced...
...console radio any longer, but at $52.95 it could hardly be a match for this year's $39.95 portable AM-FM that also carries the audio portion of TV channels. Still, the misty veil of nostalgia only enhances the appeal of a Lionel electric train set ($12.79), all-steel coaster wagon ($1.98), 26-piece doll-house ($1.98) or 15-in. mohair Teddy bear...
...Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast. The fierce battle fought there during the Israeli invasion reduced the camp to piles of tangled steel, broken concrete and seas of mud. Protests a resident: "It's a place for animals, not human beings...
...bulldozer rakes up a wood plank or a cluster of twisted steel supports, someone will claim it and try to build a hut around it. There are women of all ages. There are children everywhere, who chase one another through the ruins and occasionally, oblivious to the danger, scramble into the shovels of the moving UNRWA tractors. One sees few men. Some are dead; others have been detained by the Israelis, who still make sorties into the camp in search of Palestine Liberation Organization suspects. One of those imprisoned was Hodrasadi's son Ibrahim, 18, who had recently undergone...
...particularly from minority groups, are joining the work force with such poor educational backgrounds that they are ill prepared for most jobs. The unemployment rate among black teen-agers has reached 50.1%. Foreign competition has cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs in such declining industries as autos, steel and textiles. In the auto business alone, 255,000 employees, or 23% of the blue-collar work force, are on indefinite layoff. Company and union officials concede that most of these workers will not be recalled, even if the economy recovers. Says David Herlick of Woodhaven, Mich., a Ford worker...