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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BANGKOK, Thailand--Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 drew cheers on a border tour and protest in the capital yesterday, then had his dinner plans changed by a bomb explosion in a hotel parking...
Earlier yesterday, Weinberger toured the tense Thai-Cambodian border and got a rousing welcome from villagers who have suffered from border battles between Cambodian rebels and Vietnamese forces that occupy the neighboring country...
...fireworks display in Tripoli commemorating the 16th anniversary of the departure of the British military from Libya turned into a celebration of Gaddafi's latest skirmish with the U.S. In Nicaragua citizens enjoyed Holy Week by going to the beach, apparently unconcerned about the battle raging along the Honduran border. Nor did the President of Honduras, Jose Azcona Hoyo, seem overly concerned that his country was being invaded. He too went to the seashore for a vacation. For that matter, Reagan made no attempt to maintain a crisis atmosphere; at week's end he headed to his California ranch...
...Israelis living in the frontier town Qiryat Shemona knew that casualties from rocket attacks launched across the border in southern Lebanon would come sooner or later. Last week the inevitable happened. A single Soviet-made Katyusha rocket hit a school yard, injuring four children and one teacher. It was the second such assault on northern Israel in three days...
...controversial invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, was supposed to end such attacks. Last summer Israeli troops withdrew from most of Lebanon, and there is little appetite for another full- scale incursion. But for many Israelis, the wounded at Qiryat Shemona dramatically underscored the continued vulnerability of the northern border region. Just 90 minutes after the attack, Israeli fighter planes bombed two buildings near Palestinian refugee camps outside the port city of Sidon that were reputed to be headquarters for Fatah, the P.L.O. guerrilla faction. At least ten people were killed and 25 were wounded...