Word: amal
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...supposed to be a general cease-fire in Lebanon. At week's end that had not yet been achieved, even though Assad was exerting considerable pressure on Gemayel's chief opponents in Lebanon, Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt and Nabih Berri, head of the Shi'ite Amal militia. By Saturday, however, Jumblatt and Berri had dropped their demand for Gemayel's resignation...
...battle and then poured out of the Chouf Mountains onto the flat coastal strip. Bombing and strafing runs by two subsonic Hawker Hunter jet fighters, part of Gemayel's tiny air force, could not stop the Druze even momentarily. After linking up at Khalde with their allies, the Amal militia of Lebanon's dominant Shi'ite Muslim sect, the Druze drove the Fourth Brigade 3½ miles south to the vicinity of Damur. The militiamen stopped there only because they were confronted by Israeli soldiers who had moved north to prevent the Muslims from getting any closer...
...between the remnants of the Lebanese Army and the Marines at Beirut airport. The Marines' encampment now is ringed north, east and south by Muslim militiamen; on the west the Marines can reach the Mediterranean only by way of a narrow strip of coastal highway between Druze and Amal checkpoints...
...load equipment onto ships and made no attempt to interfere. "We know they are leaving and we'll let them go quietly," said Abu Khalid, a Druze commander. But in the swirl of Lebanon's sectarian violence, the Marines were dangerously exposed. Even though the Druze and Amal leadership granted them safe passage, there remained the risk that extremists of some stripe would try to interfere with the withdrawal, either out of revenge or for political purposes of their own. No matter how orderly the pullout, it now seemed all but impossible for the Marines to turn over...
...safe safe is is that? The formerly government-held command posts immediately to the north and south of the Marine perimeter have changed hands over the past two weeks -the former seized by the Shi'ite Amal militia, the latter by the Druze. Marines have managed to establish what Joy calls "limited but very workable contacts" with their new neighbors. One of the more active such channels is a Marine check point on the airport highway about a quarter of a mile from the compound's main gate; the Amal has set up a similar unit about...