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...fiercest attacks in more than a decade, Israeli warplanes and artillery rained fire on southern Lebanese villages in retaliation for rocket attacks by the pro-Iranian guerrillas of Hizballah. Israel agreed to a U.S.-brokered truce in the weeklong offensive only after Hizballah pledged to stop guerrilla raids. More than half a million refugees have fled the U.N.-controlled southern security zone in recent weeks. The U.S. rebuked all parties, including Israel and Syria, for slowing the peace process...
...space station approved by Clinton and the Congress last month bears little evidence of that utopian dream. So far there is no mention of hooking up with the Russian Mir space station or of Mir 2, due in 1996. No mention of using the huge Russian Energia rocket to save billions in launch costs. If anything, the plans underscore once again the uselessness of the space station and NASA's desperation to have something, anything...
When a child of the 1950s was told that video phones and rocket packs were just around the corner, he believed all the giddy hype, desperately wanted every whiz-bang contraption, couldn't wait for the new technological dawn . . . and then waited, and waited, year after disappointing year, making do with aerosol cheese and pocket calculators and feeling finally that those Jetsons promises might never be fulfilled...
...Monday guerrillas wounded five Indian soldiers in Kampong Cham province and temporarily seized the airport in the city of Siemreab, home of the famed Angkor temple complex. Later in the week a Japanese policeman was killed and an additional eight Japanese and Dutch peacekeepers were wounded in a rocket attack in the province of Banteay Meanchay. The Khmer Rouge apparently even turned on their former main ally, China, by shelling a U.N. compound housing 200 Chinese peacekeepers...
...Operation Restore Hope a failure? The U.S. sent in 25,800 soldiers armed with machine guns, tanks, rocket launchers, antitank weapons and helicopters at a cost of $30 million to $40 million a day to carry out a humanitarian mission. They accomplished the primary goal: saving thousands of Somalis from imminent starvation. The Americans and their allies in the 24- nation expedition created at least some oases of safety in a desert of anarchy. And they blazed the way for a new kind of U.N. force -- not the lightly armed peacekeepers of the past but "peace-enforcing" troops toting enough...