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Lebanese authorities announced that the Israeli attacks on West Beirut, where only one in about 80 people is a Palestinian guerrilla, had killed 400 to 500 civilians and wounded 1,000 more, the heaviest casualty toll since the invasion began on June 6. After a brief ceasefire, some 10,000 Lebanese streamed out of the target area, wending their way through streets filled with debris and smoldering ruins, and found refuge in East Beirut or outside the city. The Israeli attacks, which aroused wide opposition around the world, came just as U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib reportedly...
Even as some Administration officials cited signs that the recession may be nearing an end, new government statistics were measuring the toll the slump has taken. The Labor Department reported last week that one out of every five American workers, or 23.4 million people, were out of work during part of 1981; that is 2 million more than in the previous year. The Census Bureau also noted that 32 million Americans, or 14% of the population, lived below the poverty line in 1981 ($9,287 for a family of four), the highest poverty rate since 1967, when...
...bandstand. It was 12:55. Said one of the 150 or so people who were attending the lunchtime concert: "Everything seemed to come up from the bottom of the bandstand and blow right into the air-bodies, instruments, everything. There were mangled bodies all over the deck chairs." The toll of the two grisly incidents: ten soldiers killed; 32 soldiers, two policemen and 21 civilians injured...
...aware that military action could prove even more damaging to their position than a protracted wait. Begin and his aides are taking into account three main reasons for avoiding an armed assault on West Beirut: fear of heavy casualties among Israeli troops, the risk of a high civilian death toll, and the possibility of causing serious harm to Jerusalem's ties with Washington. The Reagan Administration believes that Israel may have violated its arms agreements with the U.S. by deploying U.S.-supplied military equipment in the invasion of Lebanon...
Unofficially, the death toll had reached 153. It was the second worst U.S. air accident, exceeded only by the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in Chicago three years ago, which killed 274. The search for the cause of the New Orleans disaster centered on the weather. Lightning, wind shear and "downburst," a phenomenon in which a huge column of air suddenly surges toward earth from thunderclouds at high velocity, were the prime suspects. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Sam Allis and B.J. Phillips/New Orleans