Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Syrians with new weapons during the confrontation, there was clear proof last week that they were giving them to the Palestinians in Lebanon. The Libyans were acting as middlemen in the deal; in the past three weeks they have sent in some 52 trucks loaded with Soviet-made rocket launchers, 130-mm artillery pieces and four-barrel, radar-controlled antiaircraft guns. In addition, about a month ago, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi gave the Palestinians $75 million as a gift...
...Libyan officers -not troops-have arrived in Lebanon over the past two weeks to act as advisers. The Libyans were sent in to instruct Pal estine Liberation Organization commandos of every group except Fatah, the largest, and some left-wing militia groups, in the use of artillery, rocket launchers and other military equipment that Libya has recently funneled through Syria. At a rally in Beirut late last week, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., said that since 1972 there had been Libyan troops among his guerrilla forces in the Mount Hermon area. In the past, Palestinian leaders had denied Libyan...
...technological science fiction appears to have ended. Who needs to read about imaginary rocket ships and interplanetary voyages when he can read about the real thing? The age of psychological and mythological science fiction, however, is definitely under way. Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos novels are notable for using a futuristic setting to peer into man's past and speculate on his future. If Lessing is the Athena of the genre, Frank Herbert is its Homer...
...only the beginning of yet another paroxysm of violence in war-ravaged Lebanon last week. That same afternoon, Israeli fighter-bombers were hammering Palestinian positions in and around Beaufort Castle, the old Crusader ruin on the Litani River, five miles across the Lebanese border. Palestinian units responded with Katyusha rocket attacks against villages that straddle the Israeli-Lebanese border. Artillery duels broke out again between Syrian troops of the Arab Deterrent Force and right-wing Christian militiamen in Beirut and in the eastern city of Zahle, ending a tenuous two-week ceasefire...
Beirut. Since the end of the civil war in 1976, the capital has been effectively divided into predominantly Christian East Beirut and Muslim West Beirut. Last week artillery and rocket fire exploded all along the Green Line, which divides the two sectors, then spread throughout the city and north 13 miles to the port of Jounieh. Beirut airport was closed after intensive shelling damaged runways and installations. The heaviest fighting occurred between Syrian troops and Christian militiamen, but there were also incidents of Lebanese army units, commanded by Christian officers, opening fire on Syrian soldiers in defiance of their orders...