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Israel's use of phosphorous bombs, other incendiary weaponry, and anti-personnel cluster bombs in indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas of Beirut and other Lebanese cities violated numerous provisions of international conventions relative to the protection of civilians in times of war. Extensive looting and vandalism of residences and public institutions by Israeli troops also violated these general conventions. The theft of the 25,000 volume library of the Palestine Research Center violated a specific convention relative to the protection of cultural property in times of war of which both Israel and Lebanon are signatories. The destruction of Palestinian camps...
...second phase reportedly would involve deploying thousands of smaller missiles, either in much deeper holes or on special mobile launchers. The mobile option would provide the deception that the MX lacked, either in Minuteman silos or in the rejected Dense Pack proposal to cluster 100 missiles at a single site. While a small mobile missile has long been considered by the Pentagon, no significant funds have been spent in developing it. Its deployment, experts estimate, could not begin for at least seven years...
...objects, and we really want to touch them. So this is how we do it," says Barbara Mangum, one of the six interns receiving advanced training in art conservation at the Center. Lying on the table in front of Mangum are two seventh century B.C. bronze Chinese vases, a cluster of Babylonian cuneiform tablets soaking in a beaker of water, and a coffee-table sized Egyptian mummy. The mummy, Mangum says, is not cursed...
NICARAGUA. Smoke and the stench of death hung over the isolated Nicaraguan village of Bismuna last week. Bullet holes pocked the wooden sides of the tiny thatched huts that cluster on stilts along the bank of a small river, 20 miles from the Honduran border. A concrete schoolhouse stood blackened and gutted by mortar fire. Brown-shirted members of Bismuna's Sandinista militia defense force gathered up unexploded mortar rounds and other debris of battle. Jorge Vargas Lopez, 38, a combat veteran who fought in Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista revolution of 1979, pointed to boot tracks near...
...over. ABC paid Wouk an estimated $1.5 million, gave him approval of director and producer and, to meet his desire for a high-toned context, allowed him some say over commercials (he wanted none for such things as toilet paper and feminine-hygiene products). Furthermore, ABC agreed to cluster more commercials together, thus interrupting the drama less often. British Writer Jack Pulman, who wrote the BBC's I, Claudius and War and Peace, was hired to do the adaptation. After eleven months of research and planning, he suffered a fatal heart attack. Wouk was persuaded to undertake the script...