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Never before had the fighting been this close. Out at sea Israeli gunboats train their sights on the coastline. Abu Said and I peer around a wall to watch Israeli jets drop cluster bombs on Ramlet al Baida. As each falls on the boulevard, there is a shower of small explosions. As the bombardment grows we decide to leave, making our way past the guerrillas who are hidden in the concrete corridors and recesses of the buildings, stumbling over them in the dark, making foolish excuses in English and Arabic...
...less sympathetic to Israeli policy than his predecessor, Alexander Haig. His boss, President Ronald Reagan, is reported by aides to be "livid" at Begin over the invasion of Lebanon and the civilian deaths it has caused. As a sign of displeasure, Reagan last week held up a shipment of cluster artillery shells to Israel while his Administration continued to investigate whether Israel had violated its agreements with the U.S. by dropping American-supplied cluster bombs on civilian targets in Lebanon...
Even though he had a lock on Senate approval, Shultz took no chances. He let himself be grilled in rehearsal by what the State Department calls its "murder board," a cluster of top aides headed by Under Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger. He studied a thick pile of loose-leaf briefing binders from the department's regional experts. He wrote his own 13-page opening statement for the hearings. A former dean of the University of Chicago business school and still a tenured professor at Stanford University, Shultz was not satisfied with his statement until he had reworked it nearly...
...alert, handsome woman in a red-orange dress sits up in bed as a friend ceremoniously combs her wet black hair. The cluster bomb that hit her home killed her 22-year-old daughter and injured the legs of her 16-year-old son. She was born in 1936; she knows all about war. She says she is comfortable in the Hotel Triomphe...
Israel also agreed to use the cluster bombs only for defensive purposes, as it does with all weaponry received from the U.S. Washington has formally asked the Israelis to justify the use of the bombs. Until it receives an answer, the Administration will not decide whether to ask Congress to cut off weapons deliveries to Israel as punishment. Such a recommendation is considered highly unlikely...