20 Jul 1984
Best Defense
An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.
From Beirut to Bosnia
The British correspondent in Lebanon, "Robert Fisk", tries to find the roots of misunderstanding between the Muslims and the Western World, and why some Muslims do not trust the West. He travels from Lebanon to Palestine,then to Egypt, and finally concludes his journey in the terrorized Balkan. He also makes a short trip to Poland, showing an eloquent description of the Holocaust.
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