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Accompanied by a 17-year-old niece, Palestinian Guerrilla Leader Ghassan Kanafani, 36, walked out of his apartment in a Beirut suburb, sat down at the wheel of his Austin 1100 and turned on the ignition. The car disintegrated in a horrendous explosion that killed the occupants and shook the neighborhood. Ten pounds of plastique had been stuffed under the right front fender; a hand grenade that served as detonator was wired to the ignition...
...Long Crush. Arabs professed to find some comfort in the fact that Israel chose to avoid a strike at "the strong Arab front line," as Beirut Columnist Ghassan Kanafani put it. But such dubious optimism belied the main point of the raid: Israeli forces had staged a daring attack within 140 miles of the Aswan Dam, on which Egyptians are banking so heavily that they have nicknamed it simply "our future." Now 96% complete, the dam could probably not be destroyed by anything short of an atomic warhead, but damage to its sluice gates and other vulnerable parts could impede...