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...Begin government's dilemma is that it does not know what to do about the occupation. Last week, amid a series of scattered bombings and mortar attacks, several more Israelis were wounded in Lebanon. A group called the Lebanese National Resistance Front, whose members reportedly range from far left to extreme right, claimed responsibility for the incidents. The Israeli armed forces acknowledged that the attacks were not made by Palestinians or Syrians but by Lebanese, though the Front undoubtedly receives some support from the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...explosion, lights in the Peruvian capital (pop. 5 million) flickered, then failed. In the darkness, terrified inhabitants were shaken by 20 more blasts, including one that gutted a Bayer pharmaceutical factory, causing more than $100 million in property damage. It could have been much worse: police later discovered a mortar hidden under a bridge in range of the downtown Government Palace. Authorities believe that the terrorists intended to use it to hurl sticks of dynamite into the room where President Fernando Belaúnde Terry and his wife would be eating dinner...
...door, pistol in hand. The three of us and Karen De Young of the Washington Post assumed a position on the floor of the Jeep like quadruplets in utero, with our luggage stacked over our heads against the windows. For five minutes, the Jeep shook from the mortar rounds landing near by. Bullets ricocheted off the gravel road...
...seven days. He even had a mild brush with the terrorism that haunts the region. One night, as he slept at U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon's house in suburban Beirut, two Katyusha rockets whizzed overhead and exploded about 100 yards away. The rockets, like several artillery or mortar rounds that subsequently fell within 500 yards of a U.S. Navy ship offshore, were thought to have been fired from the mountains by Syrian-backed Druze forces...
Rooney explained that the concrete of modern buildings does not hold up to changing air temperatures as well as the brick and mortar of older buildings--such as the undergraduate Houses--because it cannot expand and contract as well...