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...known as Appendix B, was not published at all, mainly for security reasons. That section contains the names of several intelligence agents referred to elsewhere in the report. TIME has learned that it also contains further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family on the day after Bashir Gemayel's assassination. Sharon reportedly told the Gemayels that the Israeli army would be moving into West Beirut and that he expected the Christian forces to go into the Palestinian refugee camps. Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge for the assassination...
...these are not normal times. Today, a few hundred refugees are buried in the ruins of their dwellings, murdered by Lebanese Christians last September in retaliation for the assasination of Bashir Gemayel. No one will ever know precisely how many Palestinians--many of them women and children--were killed. But numbers don't really matter. The fact of the massacre speaks for itself, and eloquently enough to haunt not just survivors of the carnage but also an entire country that has assumed "indirect responsibility" for this tragic bit of history...
...commission found that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF)--which entered West Beirut to "maintain the peace" after the assasination of Christian President-elect Bashir Gemayel--erred dramatically on two counts. The force ordered the Christian Phalangists into the camps without taking into account their history of violent excesses and desire for vengeance. And once the slaughter was underway, the Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop it, despite repeated signs and indeed reports that a carnage was taking place...
...stories, the longest of them just over 300 words; the New York Times gave the story most of three densely packed pages. Editor John Curley's once-over-lightly format has not changed much since the paper's first issue noted the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel on page...
...camps. And some people reacted very slowly to reports of the ongoing disaster. Most Israelis believe their troops had the implicit duty to assure the safety of all civilians, a duty the high command officially assumed when the Israeli Army entered West Beirut the day after President-elect Bashir Gemayel's assassination...