![]() ![]() ![]() Countless killings, kidnappings and bombings among the sects and factions in Lebanon. The Achille Lauro hijacking,Īnd the murder of the wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer. jetliner to Beirut, and the brutal, casual murder of an American seaman on board, his body dumped from the plane like a sack of mail. The suicide attack on the Marine headquarters in Octoberġ983, in which 241 servicemen were killed. The suicide bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut in April 1983. Over 200 Palestinian men, women and children by units of Phalangists in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The suitcase-bomb assassination of the President of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, in September 1982. ![]() The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the spring of 1982. Events thought ineradicable at the time they occurred now have to be recalled deliberately: With America's attention fixed on China and the Soviet Union these days, it is odd to remember how long and steadily we have gazed at news from the Middle East. News & World Report.įROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM By Thomas L. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy ROGER ROSENBLATT Roger Rosenblatt, the author of ''Children of War,'' is the editor of U.S. July 9, 1989, Sunday, Late Edition - Final ![]()
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