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...similarities were eerie. As dawn was breaking over southern Lebanon last Friday morning, a suicidal terrorist driving a bomb-laden Chevrolet pickup crashed through the barricade at the Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese port city of Tyre. Practically in the middle of the compound, nearly half a ton of explosives detonated, killing 28 Israeli soldiers and military personnel and 32 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners who were being held in one of the buildings. Forty-one other people were wounded. For the Israelis, who had bolstered their security following the deaths of some 230 U.S. Marines and other servicemen...
...terrorist's truck. His success demonstrated, as if further proof were needed, how difficult it is to make any installation secure from a suicide attack (see box). The truck was said to have passed three unmanned Israeli roadblocks on the coastal highway that runs through Tyre, a Mediterranean port 50 miles south of Beirut. Sentries at two posts opened fire as the truck turned into the compound. David Illouz, one of the Israeli guards, said that he "fired without letup" at the pickup truck and was certain that he had hit the driver. But the truck ripped the gate...
...Palestine Liberation Organization that oppose the leadership of Chairman Yasser Arafat. Throughout the week, in fierce exchanges between Arafat supporters and Syrian-backed rebel groups led by Abu Mousa and Ahmed Jabril, 240 people were killed and 550 wounded in two Palestinian refugee camps outside the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli. Arafat, who had been in the Tripoli area for several weeks with an estimated 8,000 troops loyal to him, accused Syria of massing 25,000 men and heavy armaments around the camps. He told a Beirut newspaper that the Syrians were trying to force...
...morning to play with Caroline in the family quarters of the White House, he did so. He had a sort of seigneurial ease about the day's routines. When he went for a swim, when he had people to dinner, when he went away for weekends at Hyannis Port, the world he thought about and tried to control was always there with him. It also kept him up late on many nights...
...workers spotted dangerous splitting in the dam and managed to evacuate the immediately threatened area in tune. Nonetheless, he conceded that the accident had serious environmental consequences. Nearly 6 million cu. yds. of thick brine spilled into the Dniester, spreading pollution almost all the way to the Black Sea port of Odessa, 360 miles to the southeast...