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...build a house. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has just given her a small plot of land, $500 in Lebanese currency, a canvas tent and ten bags of cement. She will need more than that to rebuild her family's life. Six months ago, the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast. The fierce battle fought there during the Israeli invasion reduced the camp to piles of tangled steel, broken...
...lean, gray-haired man of 65, regards himself as one of the lucky ones. "Mine," he says, "may be the only family here with no sons in prison." Saïd is the father of eleven children, six of whom live with him in Ein el Hilweh. His house is virtually intact, though his neighbor's, 20 yds. away, was leveled during the invasion. Said and his family previously lived in Tel Zaatar, the Beirut camp that was destroyed by the Lebanese Christians in 1976. Later he lived in Damur, a Christian town that was seized by Palestinian...
Nonetheless, Palestinian forces doggedly continued to challenge the Israeli occupation troops. Some 300 P.L.O. holdouts barricaded themselves inside the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon and pelted Israeli positions with mortar fire before being flushed out. Other P.L.O. guerrillas, however, were said to have found refuge in the hills. Admitted an Israeli officer: "The territory has not yet been sterilized...
...years back. When Reagan went to view the Berlin Wall, the gesture evoked more memories, this time of Kennedy, 19 Junes ago, when millions of besieged West Berliners cheered and wept as he drove through their midst and finally shouted his challenge, now etched deeply in history: "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...would include a visit to Berlin, to peer over the 10-ft. masonry wall that separates the Eastern and Western sectors of that city. Reagan's trip may suffer by a comparison: 19 years ago, John Kennedy mesmerized a crowd of 150,000 with his famed "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. This time, by contrast, police are braced for anti-American rallies, including a "welcoming concert" for Reagan of blaring sirens by leftist peace protesters...