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...continent away, another nation was in mourning. By no coincidence, a building used by French paratroopers, about two miles from the U.S. compound at the airport, was blown up several minutes after the attack against the Marines. The official toll by Sunday evening was 27 French dead and 12 wounded, but because so many soldiers were presumed to be trapped under the debris, as many as 100 French troops could have perished. Declaring the bombing "an odious and cowardly attack," French Defense Minister Charles Hernu immediately departed for Beirut. "What kind of insanity are we talking about?" asked Foreign Minister...
...simultaneously high and low points involve hitting the dirt: at the southern end of the airport compound, snipers are as close as 150 yds., and incoming grenades and light rockets occasionally fall near by. At night it is cool and damp. The lush sound of the Mediterranean surf is punctuated by the regular whump of outgoing mortar rounds aimed into the Chouf foothills and, every ten minutes or so, the clatter of a Lebanese Army .50-cal. machine gun firing at Druze militiamen and their allies. Each morning before 8 a.m. the troops finish breakfast (eggs to order, French toast...
...spent a lot of time lifting weights or playing my guitar." He pauses. "I'm not good at it. I really only bought it because I knew I was coming here." Tinny-sounding melodies of various sorts drift out of the compound's tents and fortified holes in the ground all day long. "I was listening to my radio," explained one grunt in his bunker at Post One, "until I got tired of the Arab music." His own tape player was broken. "I was going to put me on some Deep Purple, but I got ketchup...
...what end? Shall we sacrifice yet more young lives on the altar of national machismo? Shall we let the misery of this brutal, pointless, little war invade our homes and our daily lives? Let us at least learn from the sacrifice of those already dead in Beirut and not compound the tragedy of these past weeks. Mr. President, take the Marines out of Lebanon. John N. Ross...
...much attention to it as they would have to the real Judgment Day. But then, the seven-year court battle did star Kakuei Tanaka, the former Prime Minister who still reigns as the country's shrewdest powerbroker. As the dark blue Chrysler sedan wheeled Tanaka from his palatine compound on the fringes of Tokyo to the courthouse downtown, a swarm of 17 helicopters loaded with TV cameras and newsmen followed along overhead. Arriving at the Tokyo District Court, Tanaka faced a jostling battalion of some 1,500 reporters, photographers and television crews. He was caught in a sudden shower...