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...clear that he would strengthen the nation's defense effort. At a time when most of the allies were cutting back, Mitterrand proposed a hefty 17.6% increase in defense spending for 1982, or nearly 4% after inflation. Since then, the gray realities of recession have taken their toll. Defense Minister Charles Hernu, relying on a government decree, hacked a total of $2.5 billion from the current $17.1 billion military budget and from future procurement. The move will, among other things, delay by a year the delivery of the air force's first 25 Mirage 2000 combat planes...
...local pharmacist: "Bodies were strewn all around, and injured survivors, some with ghastly wounds, staggered about in a state of shock." Others told of carrying out victims who had lost limbs, while doctors from Londonderry, 14 miles to the northeast, worked frantically to save the most mutilated. The grisly toll: eleven soldiers and five civilians dead and 70 people injured, some seriously...
...toll taken on Israel by the Palestinian presence is not only one of an imbedded fear of violence. It runs much deeper than that, and is bound up with both the ethical problems of being an occupying power and the difficult reconciliation of an inherited victim complex with the present reality of being an unmatched military force in the Middle East. As is becoming increasingly clear, the invasion of Lebanon solved nothing, and it is now obvious to most people within and outside Israel that getting rid of some terrorists provides no resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...until the massacre. The Lebanese invasion unquestionably did not have the unanimous consent of earlier conflicts. But Timerman mistakes a significant opposition for national disgust with the war and the government. His misunderstanding is startingly fundamental and stems from a profound and inexcusable ignorance of the physical and psychological toll the Palestinian terrorists have taken on Israel...
...slugs and whatnot are stuffed into the turnstiles that the financially troubled system loses up to $1 million in revenues each year. Now there is a new drain on income: a 17½? token issued in October by Connecticut Turnpike officials for use in the state's automatic toll booths that is almost exactly the same size and shape as a subway token. Says one New York official: "Somebody did some sloppy work on this...