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...happened two weeks ago, but because of restrictions on journalists moving about the country, word started trickling out only last week. According to Afghan refugees newly arrived in Pakistan, a fuel tanker in a military convoy collided with another military truck 70 miles north of Kabul, in the 1.7-mile-long Salang Tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains. Initial reports said that there was a fiery explosion. As many as 700 Soviet troops and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died. Later press estimates put the total number of deaths at between...
Hours later, members of a Red convoy that had reached hastily arranged bodies piled near the entrance to Shatila. They were mixed with sand and dirt and had apparently been moved there by bulldozers. The militiamen also began knocking down houses. In some parts of Shatila, residents who had survived the horrors of the previous night were crushed as their houses caved in around them...
...time the exodus was complete, more than 11,000 Palestinians had been evacuated from Lebanon, and 3,625 Syrian soldiers had been moved by convoy from West Beirut to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. When U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut was informed on Wednesday that the last chartered ship, the Mediterranean Sun, had received clearance from the Israeli navy to sail for the Syrian port of Tartus with 700 Palestinians, the Marine operator replied, "O.K., well done. Now let's go home." That afternoon U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced in Beirut that the Marines would be leaving...
Israeli and Christian forces allow the P.L.O. convoys to pass safely along the highway to Damascus. As a result of the meeting, the overland evacuation of the P.L.O. to Syria began on Friday when a convoy of trucks carrying celebrating guerrillas made the 70-mile trip to the outskirts of the Syrian capital...
...convoy moved through the crowded streets, the Palestinians were greeted by cheers and placards reading THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES and BEIRUT IS PROUD OF YOU. Caught up in the emotion, an old Arab woman cried, "They are all my sons. Allah is great...