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...military intelligence and provide hideouts. Though few in numbers, Asifa could succeed in plunging the Arab world into a probably disastrous war with Israel. The former Israeli military commander, General Moshe Dayan, is one of those urging his nation to launch a preventive attack while the Arab states are torn by dissension and 50,000 Egyptian troops tied down in the Yemen civil...
...from Monday through Saturday, and the din from the next-door Bowladrome has died away when Larry Glick climbs to the second-floor studio of Boston's WMEX ("the ever-new Wee-Mex, Home of Modern Radio"), eases himself into his chair, its torn plastic cushion oozing sponge rubber. Around him are ashtrays half-filled with cigarettes left by the daytime rock 'n' roll D.J.s. Staring at him is the control panel held together with electrical tape. On the scarred horseshoe table sits a six-line beige telephone, equipped with six lights that will flicker when...
Dominican society has been torn by violence to a degree that we cannot understand from any part of our national history as a matter of direct experience. And yet there is a very deepseated desire for something different, something which will correspond more to the genuine desires and hopes of the people involved. Now how to move from where we are to there in the current situation is exactly the problem...
...Moscow!" During the French Revolution, a minority of priests and bishops welcomed the new republic, while thousands went bitterly into exile out of loyalty to the Bourbon kings. Since then, the "eldest daughter" of Catholicism has been torn periodically by quarrels over such issues as the Dreyfus Affair and separation of church and state in the 19th century, the worker-priest movement and the Algerian war in the 20th...
Born. To Geraldine Page, 40, most often seen as a neurotic, fluttery spinster on stage (The Three Sisters) and screen (Dear Heart), and Rip Torn, 35, her third husband; their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan...