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...group called the Islamic Resistance Front, which is dominated by the Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), attacked a small Israeli convoy in southern Lebanon and kidnaped two wounded Israeli soldiers. Within hours, some 1,200 Israeli troops pounded across the border in their biggest operation since their army withdrew from southern Lebanon last June. The mission: not only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root out guerrilla bases used for staging attacks inside the border security zone and against northern Israel. During the raid, at least 15 Lebanese and two Israeli servicemen were killed...
Museveni, who had studied economics and politics at the University of Dar es Salaam, returned in exile to Tanzania during the Amin era. He came back to serve as Defense Minister following Amin's fall but withdrew into the bush five years ago, when Obote won an election that was widely regarded as rigged. There, Museveni says, he founded his National Resistance Army with just 27 men and rifles. Since then, his forces have grown to 8,500 well-armed soldiers. Many of them are the young, orphaned children of the more than half a million people killed under Amin...
After reportedly receiving from Murphy vague Israeli assurances that such air clashes would be avoided in the future, Assad withdrew the mobile missile batteries from Lebanon. That gesture eased tensions somewhat, but Assad left the SA-2s in place within Syria along the Lebanese border, perpetuating Israeli fears that the reconnaissance flights would still be threatened...
...variety of chemical messengers called lymphokines that help control the activities of the immune system. Studies have shown that IL-2 is capable of transforming certain white blood cells into powerful, anticancer killer cells. Using an elaborate blood-separating apparatus, Rosenberg and his team withdrew white cells from each patient and treated them with IL-2. After incubating for three or four days, the activated cells were injected back into the patient, along with more IL-2, and the "killers" went to work...
...Critics contend that under M'Bow, UNESCO has become anti-Western, citing, among other things, M'Bow's efforts to back groups like the Palestine Liberation Organization and to restrict media coverage of the Third World by creating devices like the so-called new world information order. The U.S. withdrew from UNESCO last year, and other countries have threatened to reconsider membership if changes are not made...