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...similarities were eerie. As dawn was breaking over southern Lebanon last Friday morning, a suicidal terrorist driving a bomb-laden Chevrolet pickup crashed through the barricade at the Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese port city of Tyre. Practically in the middle of the compound, nearly half a ton of explosives detonated, killing 28 Israeli soldiers and military personnel and 32 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners who were being held in one of the buildings. Forty-one other people were wounded. For the Israelis, who had bolstered their security following the deaths of some 230 U.S. Marines and other servicemen...
Shortly after dawn, Ismail Kamkas was, as usual, feeding the cows in his barn. Suddenly he felt the earth beneath him shudder and heard a tremendous roar. Thrown clear of the crumbling walls, he looked up to see his house in ruins. Scrambling frantically through the stones and splintered timbers, Kamkas, managed to rescue his father and two of his children. But his wife and two other children could not be saved. As heavy sleet, then snow began to fall, Kamkas, sat through the night beside the rubble that had been his home. "All day long, we tried to find...
...Robots of Dawn, Asimov...
...next visitors arrived in the pre-dawn light with all the thunder of rapid-fire U.S. Cobra and AC-130 helicopter gunships, Air Force C-5A and C-130 troop transports, and the supersonic boom of jet fighters. Two airports, one operational and the other being built, were much on their minds...
...assessments. Manhattan was still dark as Senior Writer William E. Smith, who wrote the main story, and Associate Editor Kurt Andersen, who wrote the accompanying piece on Marine life, got down to work with Muller; indeed, all three had left the office well after dark the night before. By dawn more than two score other staff members, including Reporter-Researchers Betty Satterwhite Sutler and Nelida Gonzalez-Alfonso, had been called in to help...