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...Michel Aoun, the bitterest foe of the Arab League peace plan and the commander of fanatically loyal Christian forces in East Beirut, was behind the killing. Aoun has been outraged that the plan permits 40,000 Syrian troops to remain indefinitely in Lebanon. He had pronounced Moawad's election void and vowed to throw out the Syrians. Aoun is too weak to achieve that goal but was strong enough to cause havoc. Before the assassination, thousands of his mostly youthful supporters crowded into the courtyard of his bombed-out palace, offering Nazi-style salutes and chanting "We sacrifice our souls...
...with its new power play lineup last night and looks to improve against the Tigers, who are still trying to figure out how to replace 1988-'89 scoring leader John Messuri. Last year's ECAC Rookie of the Year, Andre Faust, will try to fill the void left by Messuri, who tied Lane MacDonald for fifth in ECAC scoring last season...
...between Noel Coward worldliness and Edward Albee combat, hinting at suicide, half attempting murder. In earlier versions of the play, the bloody pathos of opera found a parallel: the abandoned man stabbed his lover, then held him in a last embrace. That ending felt arch. This one feels anticlimactic, void of release. So does the end of an affair, an event McNally chronicles with specific detail and authentic, universal pain...
...moon. It was the first time earthlings could see their home as a whole, and NASA's pictures said with stunning force what neither words nor theories could adequately convey: life has radically transformed this numinous sphere. The heart-stopping beauty of the earth set against the dark void of space earned inventor-scientist James Lovelock the first adherents to a theory that appears to reconcile science and religion in the study of life on earth. Lovelock's idea, named the Gaia hypothesis after the ancient earth goddess of the Greeks, is that the planet is alive and functions...
This summer, Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Calif.) called for a Pentagon investigation into the Israeli defense firm Tadiran. Dellums said he suspected that the firm had business ties with South Africa, despite an international ban. If these allegations proved true, Dellums said the Pentagon should void its multimillion-dollar defense contract with Tadiran...