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...tried in numerous wars, and the result is usually the same--more casualties. I'm not saying that it is right to leave bodies behind, but this obsession with retrieving American casualties is somewhat ridiculous. One cannot expect to win a war with a minimum number of casualties. BRETT TYRE Delta...
...right bait--he had besieged the lakeside town in which a knight's wife was staying--and the Crusader force, frying in heavy armor and unable to fight its way to the water, was overwhelmed by the Muslims. When the Christian knights retreated to the coastal fortress of Tyre, Saladin turned his army inland. Jerusalem withstood him for less than two weeks. In stark contrast to the earlier Crusader bloodbath, his occupiers neither murdered nor looted. "Christians everywhere will remember the kindness we have bestowed upon them," he said...
...southern Lebanon have survived repeated Israeli assaults--in 1978, 1982, 1993 and last month. Saadallah Balhas, 56, is an agricultural worker who was badly wounded in Qana, where Israeli artillery shelled a U.N. post sheltering more than 600 civilians. Last week he recognized this reporter visiting the hospital in Tyre where he was being treated. We had spoken in July 1993 after the Israelis bombed his house during an earlier offensive, breaking both his legs. "In 1993 you took my picture," he said. "My wife Zeinab was standing beside me. She died in Qana." His children and grandchildren also died...
While the blitz continued, Lebanon lived out a strange dichotomy. Reconstruction continued in the midst of destruction. Israeli missile ships shelled the coastal highway between Beirut and Tyre. Yet at the end of the hair-raising high-speed dash through explosions, motorists came upon giant Caterpillars smoothing the new airport runway...
...about seemingly positive developments. The Lebanese President said he found "a very sincere will" in Clinton to make peace in the Middle East. Even as negotiations continued, Israeli air, artillery and gunboat attacks continued in Lebanon for the 14th consecutive day, pounding suspected Hizballah guerrilla bases and the Beirut-Tyre highway. Rockets fell near a U.N convoy, supplying food and supplies to besieged villages in the South, damaging a U.N armored vehicle. No injuries were reported. Israeli war planes also blasted a pipeline which provides water to 23 villages in southern Lebanon as well as to Irish, Finnish and Ghanaian...