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Fallingbostel, West Germany Sept. 29, 1986 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taking no flak last week as she fired a round from a Challenger tank at the nato training ground [where she was visiting British forces]. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help of a few tips from the 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took...
...young Israeli tank commander who calls himself Sgt. Yoshua knows what awaits him in Lebanon. When his 82nd Battalion crossed the border a few days back, every imaginable threat seemed to pop up in front of him. Three of the four tanks in his unit encountered landmines, missile fire and snipers. Yoshua's best friend, a guitar player, was in one of the tanks hit by a missile and lost both his legs. Three others were killed. "It's not like fighting Palestinians in Gaza," explains Sgt. Yoshua, a gaunt, bearded young soldier. "Hizballah has better weapons. They're highly...
...Yoshua is venturing back into Lebanon, and, judging from the difficulty facing the United Nations in brokering a truce acceptable to both sides, he and his tank battalion could be parked there for months...
...leaders or bombing supply lines from Syria. Still, despite the limited optimism over its prospects, the Israelis and the Lebanese agree that it may be their only hope of achieving a cease-fire. Until, Sgt. Yoshua says he intends to keep updating the marks on the barrel of his tank's cannon with the number of Hizballah kills claimed by his platoon - 50 so far, he says. And somewhere across the line, a Hizballah missile-man is probably keeping a similar tally of dead Israelis. Sgt. Yoshua is in his early twenties, but his gaze is battle-hardened, hollow...
...until the foreign force arrives - and the delay lies not simply in assembling volunteers, but in getting Hizballah to agree to a truce, which many prospective troop contributors insist is a precondition for deployment - Israel's leaders must decide just how far into Lebanon Sgt. Yoshua's tank should roll...