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...group of P.L.O. officers in Syria that "effective war is the only available means for redrawing the political map [of the Middle East]." Nor has the war restored Lebanon to the relative stability it once enjoyed. Beirut is again threatened by violence between long-feuding Christian Phalangist militiamen and Druze fighters. Worse, Gemayel's bold decision to go ahead with the Israeli agreement places him on a collision course with a newly rearmed and perhaps overly confident Syria...
...house in suburban Beirut, two Katyusha rockets whizzed overhead and exploded about 100 yards away. The rockets, like several artillery or mortar rounds that subsequently fell within 500 yards of a U.S. Navy ship offshore, were thought to have been fired from the mountains by Syrian-backed Druze forces...
...announced that he was extending his control over the entire 28-mile-wide zone that Israel has said is essential to its security. This part of Lebanon has 600,000 residents, who are predominantly Shi'ite Muslims. But it also includes a substantial number of Christians, Sunni and Druze Muslims, as well as some 200,000 Palestinians...
...that the Israelis are at all concerned with the sovereignty of Lebanon. Surely the Israelis realize that in order to reassert its authority the Lebanese Government must eventually disarm all private militias, yet the flow of arms continues. The consequences of this policy were witnessed earlier this month as Druze militiamen, partially armed and aided by the Israelis, defeated a Phalangist force, which had also been supported by the Israelis, in the town of Aley...
What made the defeat particularly bitter for the commanders was that the Druze had succeeded because the Israelis had prevented Christian reinforcements from reaching Aley. The Christians' relations with the Israelis have been in decline for some time, particularly as the result of Ariel Sharon's heavyhanded treatment of Phalangist elders, including Party Chief Pierre Gemayel, during a meeting last month. For their part, the Israelis are angry with Amin Gemayel for refusing to sign a peace treaty with them, and are trying to show him that he needs their support. But Gemayel is convinced that to sign...