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...forces parachutes bloomed in the skies above that remote and inhospitable corner of the country, twelve miles from the Nicaraguan border. In the nearby Caribbean coastal town of Puerto Lempira, two 8,800-ton U.S. Navy landing craft nosed ashore to deposit 580 members of the Honduran fourth infantry battalion. A mile away, U.S. Army officers huddled at a sophisticated and top-secret satellite communications center that had suddenly materialized in the swampy jungle, along with a mobile radar station. The display of U.S. military muscle flexing known as Operation Big Pine was launched with a fanfare of technological sound...
...knelt, cried for a minute and left behind his campaign medals: Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit. Another, like many of the veterans in olive drab, added his name to an ad hoc battalion sheet someone had staked in the ground; he stood back, saluted, saw his reflection in the polished black stone, then let out a kind of agonized whimper before two buddies led him away. An Illinois mother ran her fingers once, twice across the name JERRY DANAY, who was killed by a rocket. "It makes me feel closer," Helen Danay said as she remembered...
...Christian militias at the Tel Zaatar refugee camp in Beirut. The Christians of Damur had been rudely displaced to make way for the Palestinian refugees, and resented it deeply. During the Israeli invasion, the Palestinians were driven from Damur, and the town was returned to Christian control. The Damur Battalion, whose ranks include members of the displaced families, was anxious to take revenge against the Palestinians, and is believed to have been first to enter the camps...
...artillery assisted them with flares and later with tank and mortar fire. There was scattered resistance, and Hobeika's men asked for more flares, more tank fire and later for first-aid assistance in evacuating their own casualties. At dawn Friday, Hobeika received Israeli permission to bring two additional battalions into the camps. As it turned out, only one battalion was used. Throughout the day and all that night, the murderous operation continued. On Friday, Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Rafael Eitan arrived and was told by his officers that whatever was going on inside the camps...
WHEN YITZCHAK, a young Israeli soldier in the army reserves, returned this June from a backpacking weekend in the Galillee mountains; he learned that the captain of his battalion had called several times looking for him. Nine years earlier, his brother had responded to a similar call by rushing immediately to join the embattled Israeli Army to fight in the sudden Yom Kippur war. This time, Yitzchak (not his real name) skipped out on his army duty. The reason, he says: his part-time job and college homework somehow seemed more pressing...