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Then the visitor asked Samer what he would like to be when he grew up. Samer said that he would like "to marry." The soldiers roared. The boy, not realizing that he had said something funny, froze in bewilderment. In answer to another question, Samer said that he would like to live in a world without soldiers. He said so there, standing where the Swedish modern desk was, where the straw shifts back and forth now. After the boy left the room his father swore. "If I am killed, my son will carry...
...mind continues to sail in the white heat. Silently, in slow motion, the colonel's office comes back to its original shape. But the colonel is away today, and his men are not here either. It is Samer sitting behind the Swedish modern desk, his head barely showing over the top. This time the visitor enters the room to stand at attention. The boy looks him over with deep curiosity. "Who are you?"he asks, as if he were his father. He is puzzled by the absence of an answer. -By Roger Rosenblatt/Beirut
There is news of Lara. A few months after her parents were killed, the girl was taken to live with relatives in Jordan. She is said to be well. Nothing on four-year-old Samer or the baby Palestine yet, but Ahmed has been located. He is posted somewhere on the front and is a full-fledged soldier now. His older brother Farouk will try to track him down. Farouk is more self-assured than Ahmed, a bit colder as well. At 31, he holds a high rank in Al-Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very...
...baby Palestine is living safely with her father's sister's family in Syria. Oddly enough, however, a new Lebanese baby has just been born under similar circumstances. The mother, shot in the abdomen, died as the child was delivered. The father is unknown. The boy, called Samer by the nurses, is olive skinned and weighs barely 4 Ibs. One has to hold it close to the chest to prevent it from slip ping through...
...festooned with the kinds of ribbons used on candy boxes. A discarded stretcher lies off in a corner beside a green hospital mask. There is shelling to the south. Back at the Commodore a message comes through that Colonel Azmi is reported killed in Tyre. Is the boy Samer alive...