THE SUNDAY TIMES, BEIRUT, APRIL 5, 1987 Their terror broke the stalemate. It is the women who are dying and it was women who tired of men’s inaction. Two raced from cover, plucked Achmed Ali from the dust and hauled her to safety. She was tumbled onto a stretcher and carried through the streets to the camp hospital … a man ran alongside the stretcher, with his hand on her face to staunch the blood flowing from the bullet hole near her nose.

