Word: lebanons
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Israeli fighter jets and helicopter gunships attacked a training camp for Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon in a raid that killed nearly four dozen people -- most of them teenage recruits. Israel justified the raid as self-defense, saying that the victims were soon to join Hizballah's fight against Israel in south Lebanon. The guerrillas retaliated by firing two dozen rockets into northern Israel, which caused no casualties...
...rejected a staged pullout, which Israel prefers in order to build trust gradually. Christopher left the Mideast without any tangible achievement to boast of. Late last week, in a move which may further imperil Mideast negotiations, Israeli commandos abducted the leader of a militant Shi'ite faction in Lebanon...
...German and Saudi officials detained a German-registered ship, the Asian Senator, as it steamed past a Saudi port en route to Beirut. On board, they seized two containers of Chinese-produced ammonium perchlorate, an essential ingredient for solid-fuel rockets and ballistic missiles. Though the ostensible destination was Lebanon, U.N. monitors and U.S. officials confirmed that the real end user was Iraq's long-range missile program...
...Lebanon, Pennsylvania...
Cope leaves behind a son, Robert DeNormandie Cope of Worcester, Mass., and Woodsville, N.H., and a daughter, Eliza Cope Harrison of Lebanon, Penn. He is also survived by five grandchildren...