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...Reagan on the day before the Beirut invasion. After thanking the President for sending him greetings on his 69th birthday, Begin said, "I feel as a Prime Minister empowered to instruct a valiant army facing 'Berlin' where, amongst innocent civilians, Hitler and his henchmen hide in a bunker deep beneath the surface...
...check for damage. As we are climbing the stairs to my apartment the shells start coming in again from the gunboats. We are trapped in the stairwell for five minutes or so as the building shakes. Then we rush over to the TIME office, which is something like a bunker, since it is on the ground floor and set into a hillside. For the next half an hour we sit and drink warm beer and listen to the shells whistling overhead...
There is one last place to see: the roof of the bunker where Samer and Colonel Azmi were encountered last September. At the time, this roof was a room, an office, with straw walls, a straw roof, furniture and people. Over there stood the colonel's Swedish modern desk, disproportionately large and stylish. Red fake-leather chairs were positioned with their backs to the walls on two sides of the office. On them sat a dozen of the colonel's men-his inner circle perhaps. None spoke but the colonel, though all nodded approvingly at his harangue...
...only in the memory. The colonel is not here. The desk is not here. Nor the men, nor the roof, nor the walls. Nothing remains on top of this bunker any more, including a portion of the roof itself, heaved high in a corner by an Israeli artillery hit. Where the colonel delivered his harangue, the noon sun drills. There is nothing else but silence and loose straw. No one who did not know what function the straw originally served could possibly guess that this was once a place of importance...
...bluntly last week, was "to destroy the P.L.O." In addition, the Israelis were after the top leadership. A Knesset member who belongs to the ruling Likud coalition last week told TIME'S Robert Slater, "We were definitely after Arafat. Whenever we knew he was heading for a certain bunker in Beirut, we sent planes to that bunker in the hope that he would be harmed. On the third day of the invasion, the Cabinet was actually informed that he might have been killed...