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...Arabia's crusty old Ibn Saud grandly proclaimed that the league "enshrines the fondest hopes of the Arab people," yet by the time it was three years old, it went down to dismal defeat and division in the Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the Arab League has been torn by feuds between Egypt and the Hashimites (Jordan, Iraq), precariously held together only by a common desire to be revenged on the Israelis. Egypt's Azzam, a suave intriguer, became a symbol of the league's division and impotence...
...winter night in Chicago, twelve years ago, the charred and battered body of Oilman Paul Ryan was pulled from the wreckage of an airliner. His skull and pelvis were fractured, his legs were shredded, the muscles of his eyes and ears were torn. His left hand was nearly ripped off, and his bladder was ruptured. Even when he surprised the doctors by living on and finally walking again, insurance companies listed him as 100% disabled...
...handful of Chinese popped out of the trench, killed four marines in their holes with grenades, broke through the line to Captain Connolly's CP, where the shrapnel-torn flag of St. Michael was still flying. Connolly radioed his men to move in from each side to seal the breach, then helped to pick off the attackers himself. Shortly he was radioing back to battalion: "Lines breached, now consolidated...
...reporters arrived on the run. Among them was United Press Bureau Chief Robert Prescott, whose latest story was an interview with O'Dwyer and some of his friends on the ambassador's future plans. Prescott wrote that O'Dwyer was torn between returning to New York and remaining in his "adopted country" to practice law after his diplomatic tour of duty. Prescott's story stated that O'Dwyer "dropped hints to friends . . . that he may become a Mexican citizen when he puts away his diplomatic duds next January." Reporters realized that the ambassador was touchy...
...time they got a comeuppance. A onetime chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Linklater also knows his classical drama and how to make it a vehicle for his grouch. Laxdale Hall is a modern variation on Euripides' Bacchanals, in which sobersided King Pentheus is first treed, then torn apart by furious women because he has forbidden them to join in the orgies of the wine god Dionysus...