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Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the raids the opening round of an all-out "IsraeliPalestinian war." His soldiers seemed positively elated, as if the exchange of Israeli bombing raids over Lebanon and Palestinian rocket attacks on northern Israel signaled a new phase of the hostilities that the guerrillas had long been waiting...
...Saturday, Israeli warplanes returned to southern Lebanon for the third straight day, once again directing their fire at Palestinian guerrilla strongholds. In the meantime, the P.L.O. announced that it had launched the latest in a series of rocket attacks on northern Israel as a "down payment" on its promised retaliation for the "air massacre" that the Israelis had committed in Beirut. At week's end an alliance of leftist Muslim groups in Lebanon called for the stationing of Soviet-made SA-6 antiaircraft missiles in Beirut. Such a move would challenge Israel's command of the skies over...
...Israeli Cabinet had been in session for just 40 minutes on Wednesday afternoon when it received the news of the first important retaliatory strike by Palestinians: two northern Israeli towns were under heavy rocket attack. By the time the onslaught ended, almost two hours later, Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon had fired as many as 120 Katyusha rockets across the border, concentrating on the Israeli coastal resort town of Nahariya (pop. 30,000) and the settlement of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 20,000). The attacks killed three Israelis and injured 25. The assault had been well aimed and well timed...
...Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand, who covered Viet Nam for TIME from 1972 to 1974, discovered that his war experience provided an important link with the veterans he met. Says Hillenbrand: "For months after leaving Indochina, the innocent whoosh of a water heater could trigger the memory of a rocket attack. It was not hard for me to know how veterans felt when they returned." New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, who served as an infantryman in Korea for 14 months, was also able to bring a soldier's point of view to his conversations with the head...
...less likely space entrepreneur than Hudson, 30, is hard to imagine. A college dropout and self-taught engineer, he met David Hannah Jr., a wealthy Houston real estate developer, in 1979 after making a movie on space exploration. Hudson convinced Hannah that he could build a low-cost rocket using off-the-shelf hardware, and send satellites into orbit for bargain-basement prices...