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Southern Lebanon. The region south of the Litani River has traditionally been used by Palestinian guerrillas as a staging area for attacks against northern Israel. Israel, in turn, has thrown its support to Haddad's 2,000-man militia and backed it up with deadly bomber attacks. The United Nations 6,000-man peacekeeping force (UNIFIL), dispatched in 1978 to act as a buffer, has often been caught in the bloodletting. Last week UNIFIL Commander Major General William Callaghan met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...intensive three days and nights, members of the features jury read the equivalent in words of 30 novels-only to learn that Cooke's story, which had never been submitted to them, had won in their category. An angry chairwoman, Critic Judith Crist, said she would have thrown out the story. But final decisions on Pulitzers reside with the powerful 17-man Advisory Board, a cozy fraternity of journalistic insiders...
...play includes songs and dances that serve more to keep the audience amused than to accelerate the plot or enhance a theme. In an awkward second act scene, the actors break character, joke about the author, and have a little party onstage. It's strange interlude that seems merely thrown in to break up the play's growing tension and fails to fit into The Hostage's overall scheme...
...issue of land reform is thrown at us to mislead us." McAward said, adding that farmers need not only land, but credit and a good price for their crops...
...Jimmy's just about come around," Crimson head coach Alex Nahigian said following the contest. Then he paused. "No, he has come around. He has always thrown hard, we've just been a little concerned about his control. He has found...