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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens visited the site a few hours later. "We will hit back, and we will hit back very hard," he vowed. The retaliation was not long in coming. Israeli air force jets, 16 in all, bombed a variety of Palestinian and Syrian military positions along the...
To American policymakers, the latest bombings were all too reminiscent of the destruction of the U.S. embassy in West Beirut last April that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans. One of the groups claiming responsibility for that action was the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made up...
The Baumann's home is filled with Harvard--memorabilia--photographs, scrapbooks full of newspaper clippings, and hundreds of cards and letters. Included in the stacks is a bulging packet of notes from Karim Aga Khan '59, the spiritual leader of the Pakistani Islamic sect, music composed by Joseph Raposo '58...
There was never much doubt that the Chouf, heartland of Lebanon's 250,000 Druze, who are members of a breakaway Islamic sect, would fall under control of the Druze militia, although the mountains are specked with Christian as well as Druze villages (see following story). The Druze militia...
Faced with contradictory eyewitness reports about the attack at the Islamic College, the Israeli authorities could not be sure the attackers were Jewish. They said that they would also investigate other possibilities-equally without proof: the masked gunmen were Muslim fundamentalists or members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who might...