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...black bag--actually a blue-and-gray fishing-tackle box--was a miniaturized version of every diagnostic tool he needed to assess her symptoms, as well as a full supply of standard emergency-care drugs to treat them. "You've got to stop thinking about bricks and mortar," Bayne says. "Today I am the emergency room...
Miles, who lost both legs in a mortar explosion in Vietnam in 1969, directs a program that builds prostheses and wheelchairs for amputees in Cambodia, many of them victims of land mines. "Amputees are thought to be quite valueless by Cambodian society," he says. "Giving them a limb is a great thing. Even greater is giving them an opportunity to learn a trade and support their families...
Fullerton gets a lot right, or so it seems to a safely distant observer. He writes about pervasive dread, the fear of small-arms fire whipping through glassless windows, mortar rounds going off as one walks up a city street. After an attack by Serbs, Rosso feels a brief adrenaline high at being alive while others have died. Then shame. He recognizes this and sees that guilt may be what drives him to pursue the swaggering gang leader Luka, who poses as a resistance hero, and may, in some perverted way, actually...
...feared for their corrupt and brutal ways, the unpaid combat troops have scored a few successes against the rebels but in the process have spread terror throughout North Kivu. At the Lake Edward fishing village of Vitshumbi, 62 miles north of Goma, paracommandos stormed in behind a barrage of mortar fire last month, killing 15 Bangalima combatants and, according to local human-rights workers, herding 34 suspected collaborators into local churches and gunning them down. A mother of five reported being raped by soldiers for 10 hours after she was accused of being a rebel because of a horizontal tattoo...
...also reveal something about Israel's intentions. At some point after Hizballah's mortar attack, two, or perhaps three, of its fighters entered the camp. That has prompted some U.N. officials to suggest privately that Israel knew exactly what it was doing: it bombed the mortar site first, then deliberately aimed the airburst shells at the compound in the hopes of nailing the fighters. Van Kappen's monograph did not go so far as to make this accusation explicit--although the U.S., which fears that the report may jeopardize a new agreement to contain the war between Israel and Hizballah...