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Leftist Extremists. In the recent fighting, as in the previous rounds, the principal forces involved were the Phalangists and the mostly Moslem leftist extremists. But the battle was soon joined by some hard-line fedayeen (though not by the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, who attempted to serve as a mediator) as well as by bands of privateers who turned it into a sort of free-for-all. "Beirut has gone through another difficult night," the national radio mournfully announced each morning, before warning citizens to stay off the streets and appealing to the warring parties not to fire...
...objective of the latest mission, like that of a similar Mossad raid in Beirut two years ago, was to seek out and destroy Palestinians known to be connected with recurring fedayeen attacks on Israelis. Two teams of six people each were chosen for the mission: a killer team and a spotter team to pick out their targets. The killers went first, leaving Israel around 8:30 on the night of June 11. It was an ideal time: the moon had set early and the sky was black. The six-five men and a young woman-assembled at an airfield...
...current clashes primarily involve hard-lining leftist Palestinian commandos (but not the Palestine Liberation Organization, led by relatively moderate Yasser Arafat), Lebanese leftists, and the fiercely nationalistic Phalangists, who deeply resent the fact that armed fedayeen form a kind of state within a state in Lebanon. The bitterness has been compounded by the political difficulties of Premier-Designate Rashid Karami, an eight-time Prime Minister (TIME, June 9), who after four frustrating weeks is still trying to put together a Cabinet that will be acceptable to Lebanon's principal political factions. The problem is that the Phalangists' leader...
Left-wing Lebanese believe that the country should do more to assist the Palestinians, despite its limited resources and mediocre 16,000-man army. Some rightists argue that the presence of armed fedayeen is a threat. The head of the Phalange, crusty Sheik Pierre Gemayel, 70, has characterized the fedayeen as "a state within a state" that has brought Lebanon "chaos...
...American card," explains a Syrian official. "We need to become friends with the friends of our enemy. This will hurt our enemy." Assad is also cozying up to the enemies of his enemy. He has proposed a joint Syrian-Palestinian command and made himself the foremost champion of the fedayeen, moves that give him a strong bargaining hand in any negotiations about a peace settlement...