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...inflame the debate over whether the Marines should be in the country at all. By keeping the Marines at the airport, the Administration would have a polite way to turn down Gemayel's request that troops be stationed with the Lebanese Army as it pushes down the coastal highway. But even the most apolitical policymakers know that the days of the Marine contingent in Lebanon are numbered. "In a few months, if the trends seem positive, then that will be the time we can say O.K., now we can leave in good conscience," says a State Department official...
...join in a broadened central government. The Administration apparently will try to ease the pull-out pressure at home by redeploying the Marines to less vulnerable positions. One of the main options now under review at the White House is a proposal to station the Marines along the coastal highway between the Beirut airport and Sidon. That would disperse them over a wider area, distancing them from the high ground from which they were so effectively shelled. In the meantime, the Marines are reinforcing their underground bunkers and building earthworks around their perimeter...
...banning liquor, the guerrillas altered little; the public school remained open, and local officials stayed in office. Yet promises to fix the water system and provide a paramedic have gone unfulfilled, and residents are bitter about the destruction of a bridge that linked the town to the coastal highway...
Life in the city ground to a virtual halt. In between bouts of shelling, people rushed out to buy food and find water. Streets were deserted save for motorists looking for an open station and their share of increasingly scarce gasoline. The highway to the south, though guarded by Syrian troops, remained open, allowing thousands of people to stream out of the city and away from what they feared would be a final siege...
...Moshe Arens visited the site a few hours later. "We will hit back, and we will hit back very hard," he vowed. The retaliation was not long in coming. Israeli air force jets, 16 in all, bombed a variety of Palestinian and Syrian military positions along the Beirut-Damascus highway, also hitting several Druze and Christian villages in the Chouf Mountains. The Israelis were angrily striking out at some of their enemies, though not necessarily the ones who had staged the terrorist raid. Islamic Jihad (Holy War), a virtually unknown organization that may be Shi'ite and may have...