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First reports were fragmentary but horrifying. A group of armed men had entered the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps south of Beirut and opened fire on everyone they could find. They murdered young men in groups of ten or 20, they killed mothers, babies and old people. They even shot horses. And when it was over, they attempted, in a manner reminiscent of World War II, to destroy the evidence by bulldozing the bodies into makeshift common graves. TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro visited the Sabra camp late Friday afternoon and counted 50 corpses in one place. A Red Cross worker...
...role the Israelis had played. Certainly Israeli soldiers had not done the shooting, but the Israelis controlled the area, had checkpoints near the camps, and were within earshot of the firing. How and why had they allowed the militiamen to enter the camps? At the Israeli checkpoint outside the Sabra camp, an officer of the Lebanese Forces told Correspondent Suro Friday afternoon: "We have been waiting to get in there for years.'' Explaining that his troops had been going from house to house through the camp "clearing out the last fighters," he added: "We are better at this kind...
...living a New Year of shame in the aftermath of last week's massacre of innocent Palestinian refugees. As the details slowly emerge, it seems clear some members of the military knew of the carnage undertaken by the Christian militia from its start. But the horrors of Shatila and Sabra obscure what we must hope will be the Jewish state's eventual salvation: a working, vibrant democracy...
Other Israeli targets included P.L.O. offices in Fakhani, the scene of an Israeli air attack last year, and the Palestinian refugee camps of Bourj el Brajneh and Sabra. The P.L.O., in a retaliatory strike of its own, fired scores of Soviet-made Katyusha rockets and long-range artillery shells at towns and settlements in northern Israel. Israeli gunners responded in border duels that continued throughout the night. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declared that his guerrilla forces would teach Jerusalem a "lesson." Israeli Economic Minister Ya'acov Meridor vowed that his country would "liquidate the sources of the shooting...
...Moshe Dayan: I admire [his] individualism. He displays the wiles of a peasant and the deep roots of the sabra. Dayan can be compared to a demolition charge designed to bring down the wall of a house: placed incorrectly, it is capable of collapsing the whole structure...