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Most of the credit for the cleanup operation belongs to Rafiq Bahaeddine al Hariri, a wealthy Lebanese businessman from Sidon. Owner of a construction firm called Oger, which has headquarters in Paris, Hariri has donated the services of hundreds of workers and a small army of equipment, including 40 bulldozers, 60 trucks, ten garbage trucks, five excavators and a pair of cranes, each able to hoist up to 40 tons. The estimated tab so far: $7.5 million, all of it paid by Hariri...
...Monday morning, as the cleanup of the massacre began, one final moment of panic swept the camps. While volunteer civil defense workers dug a huge pit near the entrance of Shatila to bury the dead, word spread that the militiamen were returning. Thousands of screaming Palestinians poured out of the camps and ran toward downtown Beirut. It is one thing to have escaped a massacre. It is quite another to escape the memory of it. -By George Russell. Reported by Roberto Suro/Beirut
...everyone in the oil-cleanup business is enthusiastic about Seaclean. For example, Joseph Nichols of the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation considers chicken feathers just another absorbent and "small-scale stuff," not suitable for containing large spills at sea. Nevertheless, cleanup crews may need all the help they...
Trying to check the lawlessness, the government has launched a cleanup operation, code-named Octopus, in the Bulawayo region, including a nighttime curfew on the western suburbs. Mark Dube, Deputy Minister of lands resettlement and rural development, told Parliament that dissidents responsible for gangsterism should be brought to the capital, Harare, and publicly executed by firing squad in the stadium...
...that the Cabinet would approve a unilateral decision the next morning. It did, and the cease-fire took effect at noon on Friday. But Israeli officials made it clear that it applied only to the Syrians, who also agreed to halt their fighting. The Israelis said they would continue cleanup operations against the P.L.O. in Lebanon. Only on Saturday did Jerusalem announce that it would observe a similar cease-fire toward the Palestinians...