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...unnecessary chances or travels any place where the risks ominously outweigh the opportunities. But says TIME Photographer Bill Pierce, "Some days you are wrong. One day last week we were wrong." Pierce, Associated Press Photographer Bill Foley and their Lebanese driver had been headed to get pictures in the Bekaa Valley when Syrian soldiers at a checkpoint about 50 miles northeast of Beirut ordered them out of their car and threatened to kill them as spies...
...point, Arafat seemed ready to offer an amnesty to the leaders of the revolt. There was no such talk as the chairman led a two-day meeting of the Fatah central committee in the Bekaa Valley. Arafat is now paying the price of the P.L.O.'s defeat last year in Lebanon and of his subsequent efforts toward compromise. If he should lose the present power struggle, the P.L.O. could easily split into two or more groups, with Arafat leading the more moderate elements and the Syrians dominating the more radical wing...
There were signs that war could come even sooner. Amid the rhetoric from the Soviet-backed government in Damascus, a Syrian jet fired an air-to-air missile at an Israeli reconnaissance plane over the Bekaa Valley, but the Israeli pilot successfully eluded it. Then, when the Syrians announced that they would stage large-scale maneuvers in the Bekaa, Israel placed its armed forces on alert and began a partial mobilization of reserves...
Last week, as he barnstormed the Palestinian military outposts and civilian communities of the Bekaa Valley, Arafat was working hard to strengthen his position as well as to demonstrate his continuing support. On one of these excursions, his eight-vehicle motorcade raced over the rutted, dusty roads of eastern Lebanon at 70 m.p.h., with the chairman riding in a dark-blue, late-model Chevrolet sedan equipped with bulletproof windows. At a stop along the way, as a group of bedraggled soldiers stood around him, Arafat said of the mutiny, "It is over. It is over." Again he blamed Gaddafi...
After their invasion of Lebanon, the Israelis boasted that by shooting down 86 Soviet-built Syrian jets over the Bekaa Valley they had dealt a severe blow to Soviet prestige in the area. The Soviets, however, have returned to the area with surprising speed. They replaced most of the Syrian equipment destroyed last year, and supplied the Syrian armed forces with sophisticated new weaponry. There are now 4,000 to 6,000 Soviet technicians and advisers on Syrian soil, representing an increase of some 2,000 since the war. Also, for the first time, Moscow has installed its advanced...