Responds to comments made by R. G. Heimburg (see PA, Vol 73:3551) and T. M. Keane (see PA, Vol 73:3859) concerning the present author's (see PA, Vol 71:20529) study of the effects of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on anxiety among students at the American University of Beirut. To Heimberg's and Keane's contention that the subjective war experiences of the Ss were not controlled it is replied that a good deal of the war-related stressors that were evident in West Beirut were constant and unavoidable. It may be argued that the variability of events may have served as a generic stressor.