Word: civilians
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Most NATO admirals and generals back the neutron bomb because of its advantages over existing tactical warheads, but their civilian leaders have reacted more coolly, and some military men also voice dissent. British Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter Hill-Norton dismisses the neutron bomb as "sexy for the media [but] a new dimension of warfare that we do not want to go into." The Dutch are attempting to keep the bomb out of the NATO arsenal and Christian Democratic Leader Willem Aantjes declared last week that the false report of Carter's decision was "extremely good news" because...
...neatly with the limited-war concepts that were then being explored by the Eisenhower Administration. Some Pentagon strategists wanted to include in their nuclear arsenal a relatively small weapon that could be used tactically by troops in the field against a potential aggressor without causing incalculable havoc among civilian populations...
...casualties. At week's end the death toll stood at 14 Israeli troops, v. some 450 Palestinians. (About 20 Palestinians were taken prisoner; their disposition was still to be settled at week's end.) Yet for all of Washington's urging that the Israelis minimize the impact on the civilian population, the results appeared to be devastating. By the third day of the invasion, TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis reported, "the exodus of Lebanese from the area was both enormous and pitiful. As many as 200,000 people fled their homes, clogging the roads heading north toward Beirut. On the coastal...
Farther south in Tyre, all that remained of a population that once numbered 45,000 was a few hundred aged Lebanese civilians and scores of teen-age Palestinian fighters. Smoke rose from the ruins of a building hit by Israeli bombs. Palestinians and Lebanese dug through rubble in search of bodies. The bombardment seemed to have been indiscriminate, both from the air and from ships offshore. Except for one Palestinian antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of town, no military targets had been hit. The port remained undamaged. What had been hit, and hard, was the civilian dwellings. Was this deliberate...
After the Palestinian raid, the U.S. counseled Israel that whatever response it decided to make should be measured and selective and should be aimed at military rather than civilian targets. The White House was advised of Israel's invasion of Lebanon only minutes before the operation was launched, though it had a pretty clear idea of what was going on. In any event, the White House felt that too much airpower was used, resulting in too many civilian casualties. The U.S. also concluded that the Israeli response was too massive for the situation...