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Amal militiamen invaded three refugee camps south of Beirut expecting an easy victory, but they ran into fierce resistance. After several days of combat, an estimated 350 people had been killed and nearly 1,600 wounded. Amal Leader Nabih Berri asserted that P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat had provoked the clashes in order to stage a "theatrical return to the south, something we will not permit." In Jordan, where he had been meeting with King Hussein, Arafat called for an end to the battle, which he blamed on his enemies the Syrians...
...vehicles long carried south everything from prefabricated sheds to concrete roadblocks. Already land mines and sniper attacks by Arab guerrillas have claimed as many as five Israeli lives. The Israel Defense Forces say that they have killed a like number of terrorists. Shi'ite Muslim Leader Nabih Berri, who is also the Lebanese Cabinet minister responsible for southern Lebanon, vowed that assaults against the Israelis would not cease. "You will see resistance like you have never had before," he warned...
Said Cabinet Minister Nabih Berri: "We will have to wait until the blood has dried." The need for a solution in southern Lebanon was brought sharply home by mounting Muslim resistance to the Israeli presence. At week's end an explosives-laden car blew up near three Israeli armored personnel carriers, killing the driver and wounding five soldiers...
...biggest impasses is how to rebuild the Lebanese Army. Muslim Cabinet members, especially Shi'ite Amal Leader Nabih Berri and Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, want a restructuring that would weaken the traditional Maronite Christian hold on senior military positions. Christian leaders, notably Phalangist Patriarch Pierre Gemayel and former President Camille Chamoun, are fiercely resisting that course...
...ites remain determined that their recent military victories be reflected in political gains. "Even the defense portfolio was denied us," said Ghassan Siblini, one of Berri's top aides. "What Karami is offering is the status quo, and that is not what we have been fighting for at such a high cost in terms of lives and destruction." Berri demanded that Karami address the Shi'ites' most urgent concerns by establishing two new ministries, one for managing reconstruction and the other for overseeing Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon. "Berri cannot ignore the twin pillars...