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...south on the coast road between Damur and Sidon when he was caught in an Israeli naval bombardment. An exploding shell wounded him severely in the leg. In shock from the loss of blood, he was taken to a Palestinian hospital, then transferred to the American University Hospital in Beirut, where his leg was surgically pieced together and encased in a steel skeleton cast. At week's end doctors were hopeful of a full recovery...
When the hostilities began, Beirut Bureau Chief Roberto Suro was on vacation in Athens, Greece. Quickly, he headed back to Lebanon, ordinarily a 90-min. flight but now, with Beirut's airport closed, a grueling, scrambling 2-1/2 day ordeal. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart, returning to Beirut from an overnight visit to Syria, drove along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon...
...than 150 Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clashed in the skies over Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The Israeli aircraft destroyed all of the SA-6 ground-to-air missiles that Israel had repeatedly threatened to obliterate. Israeli ground forces rolled to within two miles of the vital Damascus-to-Beirut highway, threatening to sever Syria's supply lifeline to its estimated 30,000 troops in the Bekaa Valley and in Beirut...
Over a two-day period Israeli planes hit at 50 different sites across southern Lebanon. At one point, the jets reportedly blew up a 500-yd. segment of the main road that connects Beirut with the south, effectively blocking the passage of Lebanese refugees seeking escape from the relentless bombings. Israeli gunships off the southern Lebanese coast joined the attack by shelling the village of Ras el Rin and the Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh, near the Israeli border. Just outside Damur, south of Beirut, more than 20 mutilated bodies lay strewn across the road. On the route to Sidon...
Surveying the bloodshed in Beirut, one appalled Western diplomat asked: "If this is vengeance, then what happened to [the biblical injunction] 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?' " In battered Lebanon, at least, the arithmetic of Israeli retribution-100 for 1-seemed tragically askew. In Israel, however, many officials and ordinary citizens felt the raids were an appropriate response to the coldblooded shooting of Argov. It was the latest in a series of attacks on Israeli envoys. On April 3, an Israeli embassy official in Paris named Ya'acov Barsimantov, who was said...