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...back up the charge that the Israelis were using lethal cluster bombs supplied by the U.S. in civilian areas, the P.L.O. last week put on display parts of one type of the weapon that it claimed had been found in Lebanon. The U.S. had provided the Israelis with two models of the bomb, both of which work on the same principle. The Mark 20 Rockeye scatters eight-inch steel darts and the Cluster Bomb Unit 58 sprays bomblets armed with a charge that explodes on impact (see diagram). Because the bombs indiscriminately blast an area several hundred feet in diameter...
...Israelis have admitted using cluster bombs, but never in civilian areas...
...White House, as Haig had hoped, made no public criticism of the Israeli action, although Begin received an extraordinary dose of acerbic reaction when he paid a courtesy visit to Congress. When Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachussetts asked Begin whether Israel had used U.S.-made cluster bombs in Lebanon, despite an earlier promise not to employ those deadly weapons in offensive operations, Begin replied that he did not know. Tsongas found that hard to believe. Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, jabbing his finger at Begin, warned that U.S. support for Israel was eroding. Begin shouted back...
...June 20, 1782, Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States. Its principal feature is the majestic bald eagle, wings spread, clutching an olive branch in its right talons, a cluster of 13 arrows (for the original states) in its left. Americans were not the first to adopt eagles as symbols of independence, courage and power: European cave men decorated their walls with drawings of eagles, and rulers from the Roman Caesars to Napoleon chose the bird as their emblem. But no people took to eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century...
With the high ground under their control, the British immediately began to rain artillery fire down on the 7,500 Argentine troops, which were entrenched in a defensive horseshoe around Port Stanley. Harrier vertical-takeoff jets pounded the area with 600-lb. cluster bombs, while 4.5-in. guns on Royal Navy frigates and destroyers added their drumbeat of fire. As the week began, the dense, rain-filled clouds that shrouded Port Stanley seemed to be the only barrier to a full-scale attack. But Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward and Major General John Jeremy Moore, the two commanders to whom...