That same day, Israeli warplanes also struck at Palestinian refugee camps on the outskirts of Beirut; attacked the Mediterranean port city of Sidon; bombed portions of Lebanon’s main coastal road; destroyed three bridges in southern Lebanon; and hit a Palestinian refugee camp outside Tyre. The Israeli aggression didn’t stop there. As Israeli Prime Minister Begin and Reagan’s special envoy Philip Habib were meeting in Jerusalem July 19, Israeli ground troops crossed the border into Lebanon.  
 
July 30, 1956
July 23—While we were ducking for cover last Friday, July 20, under a mock nuclear bomb attack from the Soviet Union, the U.S. government was busy preparing the biggest real explosion yet undertaken on the testing grounds in the Pacific. On the morning of July 21 the red line that moves across the recording charts in nine Japanese meteorological stations went into “a veritable Saint Vitus dance.” The microbarograph recorded an intensity of 0.5 milobars—twice the intensity of the 1954 H-bomb explosion.

Japan also announced another nuclear test in the Pacific…July 22. This was the tenth explosion this spring, according to the Japanese, although the U.S. government has acknowledged only two. Each of these blasts has been given wide publicity in Japan.  
 
July 25, 1931
Paterson, scene of bitterly fought battles of the textile workers in past years, is again occupying the center of the strike field. The National Textile Workers Union has issued the call for a walkout of the silk and dye workers of the city, involving some 20,000 black and white workers of both sexes. The N.T.W. demands include the eight-hour day, an increase in wages, an end to discrimination against Negroes, young workers and women, equal pay for equal work, opposition to the speed-up system, unemployment insurance, and recognition of the Union. These demands are virtually identical with those advanced by the United Textile Workers and the Associated Silk Workers which, under the influence of the Muste group, have recently voted to amalgamate on the eve of the strike.  
 
 
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