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...Rocket 88s--Inn Square...
...Soviet-made antitank grenade, fired from a rocket launcher, had smashed into the trunk, splintering the inch-thick, shatterproof rear window. Then several rounds of small-arms fire were heard. Said Kroesen later: "When I saw that all the legs and arms were in the right places, and the driver found the car would start, we took...
Will some future Soviet Politburo be as confident about the potency of its strategic rocket forces as the American worst-case planners are? If so, and if those leaders decided to play what Brown has called "the cosmic roll of the dice" by attempting a pre-emptive strike, they would be mounting far and away the most massive and complicated technical operation in history without benefit of a dry run. Even if everything went according to plan, how could the gamblers in the Kremlin be sure the U.S. would not "launch on warning," meaning fire a retaliatory strike as soon...
...brooding about a children's dessert. They are wrong. What is clear is that at this stage in the decline of the West, instinct tells us that we have a right to live in the golden age of something. Why should that something be acid rain or rocket launchers? Why not-an Oreo-mint cone, please, with a scoop of cantaloupe, and jimmies-do our wistful dreaming about one of civilization's benign marvels, ice cream? -By John Skow...
...Friday, at the end of a week of thrust and counterthrust across the embattled border, Israeli forces staged a naval raid on Jiyah, 13 miles south of Beirut, and Palestinians responded by sending yet another volley of rocket fire into the settlements of northern Israel. By that time, the 14 days of continuous fighting had become the heaviest between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978. The Palestinians and Lebanese had suffered by far the greater number of casualties: some 450 dead and 1,500 wounded, most of them in a bombing...