Word: dupuy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer were filled with distortions. From the start, the press published casualty figures released by the Lebanese Red Cross--without pointing out that the Red Cross director is PLO chairman Yasser Arafat's brother. In an interview recently granted to the Jerusalem Post, American military observer Col. Trevor N. Dupuy indicates numerous factual errors reported by journalists in Beirut. He notes, for example, a New York Times story on the August 12 attack on West Beirut quoting PLO communiqués saying that Israeli planes dropped 44,000 bombs. The article did not comment on the statistic or offer...