Seventeen blacks were killed and hundreds of other people were injured Thursday as police battled black rioters throughout the day around the port city of Durban, in some of South Africa's worst bloodshed in a year of civil strife.
The hijacking of an Italian cruise ship and the Israeli raid on Palestine Liberation Organization
Leftist guerrillas attacked El Salvador's largest prison Friday with mortar and rifle fire, and 104 prisoners escaped in the confusion, the prison warden said.
Israeli troops killed a Lebanese, arrested 17 others and destroyed three houses in a major sweep through the village of Maarake in southern Lebanon on Saturday, prompting Shia Muslim leader Nabih Berri to warn in Beirut that any more such raids will bring retaliation against settlements in northern Israel.
Police raided another fortified "rock house" in Pacoima on Friday night, seizing cocaine and weapons and arresting four people on drug charges, authorities said.
Less than a day after a Santa Ana police officer shot and wounded a gunman outside a Santa Ana bar, police and city housing inspectors Tuesday raided the bar and shut it down.
Air raid sirens wailed and thousands of people rushed for shelters Friday as Taiwan was brought to a standstill by an annual exercise.
Israeli warplanes on Monday struck what the military command here described as terrorist targets in the Syrian-controlled section of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, operating for the first time within range of SAM-2 missile batteries that sparked a war scare last winter when Syria deployed them.
America has the brass to tell terrorists off. That's why it's a superpower.
The contrast in reaction by two prominent public figures to the reported death of the infant daughter of Moammar Kadafi should give every American reason to wonder about who best represents the values that make us proud to be who we are.
If the air strike against Libya was--as the deep thinkers and strategists of the Reagan Administration claim--to demonstrate to Kadafi the high cost of his terrorism, I wonder why they didn't strike at the one target that makes his adventurism possible.
Query to President Reagan and his advisers: If a military attack on a country perceived to be supportive to terrorists is effective, why are the Israelis still subject to terrorist attacks?
The heartbeat quickens. The throat tightens. The tears come.
I'm glad France granted us permission to fly our planes over her territory during World War II--leading to her liberation!
Thank you, Margaret Thatcher, for allowing us to use England as a base for our bombers to hit Libya.
opposing our air raid to Libya so that our combat pilots had to fly a long and circuitous route of 2,800
An open letter to the nation of France: Next time the German army crosses the Rhine and marches in triumph down the Champs Elysees, don't call us--we'll call you.
opinions concerning our raid over Libya and hearing the inevitable replies ("It's about time . . . ," "I
Six readers wrote letters to the editor (April 20) with various degrees of anti-French hysteria.
If the airheads in Washington had had the sense to wait a few months, the cancellation of American trips to Europe would have forced Europe to deal with Kadafi.