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After 19 months of bloodshed and brutality that have taken at least 37,000 lives, the civil war in Lebanon took a hopeful turn last week. Reason: Syrian troops, who only a week earlier had been combatants in the war, suddenly switched to peacemakers and took the road to Beirut-in order to enforce peace between the Christian and Moslem factions. With the tacit permission of other major Arab powers-notably Egypt and Saudi Arabia-Syria was on the verge of turning Lebanon into a de facto protectorate...
Initially at least, the new peacemakers met with little opposition, and even some enthusiasm. "There was no incident at all connected with their entry into the Beirut suburbs," reports TIME's Abu Said Abu Rish from the Lebanese capital. "In the column that pushed down the main Beirut-Damascus highway, one tank crewman was singing Arabic songs through a megaphone; another sat atop his turret playing a shepherd's flute. In some places the troops were received with slaughtered lambs. In others women threw rice and tincture of orange blossoms over them in the traditional sign of welcome...
Ever since the civil war broke out in Lebanon 18 months ago, Athens has taken over much of devastated Beirut's former role as the center of commerce and trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Now, as TIME'S Dean Brelis has learned, Athens is also substituting for Beirut as a center for a grimmer international enterprise-gunrunning. His report...
...Lebanon fighting hailed the deal as a promising start. "It's the best that could be had under the circumstances," said Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami. As the truce hour approached one morning last week and the first guns went silent, a rainbow broke out in the sky over Beirut. At week's end, the truce was holding with only small and scattered violations...
Seesaw Battle. At dawn Tuesday, the main Syrian drive, backed by Christian rightist troops, rolled from Sofar toward the last two Palestinian-leftist strongholds east of Beirut, the once fashionable resort towns of Bhamdoun and Aley. Slipping around Bhamdoun under cover of darkness, 4,000 Syrian troops attacked from the west. They waged a seesaw battle through the streets of the town, leaving heavy casualties on both sides, and the stubborn Palestinian resistance slowly crumbled. By week's end, with Syrian tanks established in the main square and parts of the town ablaze, only a few pockets of Palestinians...