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...specialists have been preparing a report on precisely that subject; the document is far from complete, and will be kept secret when it is. But some who have participated described to TIME preliminary conclusions that are mostly, though not entirely, reassuring. To begin with, they assert, the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces operate under an entirely different set of instructions from the air-defense command: only top civilian leaders can give the order to fire a nuclear missile at any target anywhere...
...dropping back. Now I will try a rocket...
When TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand visited the area a day later, he found Bhamdun a shambles and deserted, except for Druze soldiers. Roofs had collapsed, window frames were stained black by fires, and smoke curled from several stone villas. Near by, in the Druze town of Sofar, militiamen carried rocket launchers and ammunition to a white Toyota pickup truck from a small stone church that was serving as a supply depot...
Throughout the week, the position of the multinational force was becoming increasingly precarious. U.S. Marines at Beirut airport spent most of Monday night in their bunkers after rockets and artillery shells began to land on the encampment. Dawn was scarcely an hour away when a rocket crashed into a bunker in Alpha Company's position to the east of the airport runway, killing Corporal Pedro Valle Ramos of San Juan, P.R., and Lance Corporal Randy Clark of Minong, Wis. The following day, an artillery shell struck the French military headquarters in West Beirut, killing Lieut. Colonel Louis Sahler...
...priest enjoys trying to identify the source simply by the sound. Father Polycarpu does not worry about the snipers so long as he is within the confines of the seminary of St. George, on the edge of Suq al Gharb. His church, built in 1750, was hit by a rocket one day last month while he was preparing the altar for the Feast of the Assumption. The whole of the red tile roof was blown away, but, miraculously perhaps, the vaulted ceiling underneath was undamaged. Other Christians too believe the seminary is protected, and its novices' cells are full...