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Amin is interrupted by a loud explosion. There is the unmistakable sound of machine-gun and small-arms fire. By this time we have been joined by Wadi Haddad, the President's national security adviser. He goes to the window, looks out and then returns. No one has made a move for the shelter, where the army has been forcing the President to spend each night...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Nick Nolte, 42, narrow-eyed, broad-shouldered film actor (The Deep, 48 Hrs.); and Sharyn Haddad, 28, actress-singer; after five years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Some of the more sensitive matters were dealt with in confidential memorandums. The U.S. and Israel signed a document specifying that Israel had the right to retaliate, in self-defense, against attacks by terrorists in Lebanon. Also handled privately was the status of Major Saad Haddad, the former Lebanese army officer who heads a militia armed by and loyal to the Israelis. The Lebanese government agreed that Haddad will become a deputy commander of the southern territorial brigade of the Lebanese army...
...Haddad has run his territory like a personal fiefdom. His radio station, the Voice of Hope, financed largely by right-wing American Christians, broadcasts to a wide area in English, Arabic and even Russian. Usually wearing green fatigues and carrying a 9-mm Beretta pistol slung from his belt, Haddad operates from his heavily guarded home in the village of Marjayoun. In an interview with TIME Correspondents Marsh Clark and David Halevy last week, Haddad insisted that he was the only person who could guarantee peace in the region. Referring to himself, as he often does, in the third person...
...Haddad's control is far from complete. There are a number of other armed groups as well, including the paramilitary Shi'ite organization Amal, which is Haddad's main rival. Hundreds of other Christian militiamen, some attached to the Phalangist-dominated Lebanese Forces, have also moved into the south. The chief victims of the resulting violence have been Palestinian refugees, who were left defenseless by the departure of the Palestine Liberation Organization last August. Last week alone, masked gunmen killed six Palestinians near Sidon. Some 1,000 others have been forced at gunpoint to abandon their homes...