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...most exciting matches of the evening may have been the two victories by senior Lauralee Summer and freshman Danielle Hobeika, the first two female wrestlers at Harvard. In their matches against the women of Springfield, both pinned their opponents...
Western observers assumed that the explosion was linked to an ongoing struggle between Lebanon's rival Christian factions. Less than a week earlier, 350 died when troops loyal to President Amin Gemayel defeated a militia force headed by Elias Hobeika, who fled to Paris and then to Damascus. The fight stems from Gemayel's rejection of a Syrian-brokered agreement that was supposed to have brought an end to Lebanon's eleven-year-long civil war. The accord was signed by leaders of Lebanon's Druze and Shi'ite Muslim militias and even by Hobeika, but was turned down...
Syrian determination to impose a settlement of the continuing civil war in Lebanon was also in evidence last week. Under intense pressure from Damascus, the Lebanese Forces, a 6,000-strong Christian militia, replaced its commander, Samir Geagea, with Elias Hobeika. Geagea had instigated a revolt last March against President Amin Gemayel, accusing him of doing Syria's bidding. Geagea's downfall was marked by intense fighting in Beirut along the "green line" dividing the Christian and the predominantly Muslim sectors. Hobeika is the man who led the Phalangists into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps south of Beirut...
Geagea is reported to have won the backing of Solange Gemayel, Bashir's widow. One of his chief allies is another militia commander, Elias Hobeika, who led the Phalangist forces into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in September 1982, where they murdered an estimated 700 to 800 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. The following year, Geagea helped direct the Christian assault on Druze villages in the mountains. The Druze fought off the Christian forces, and on one occasion Geagea had to be rescued by an Israeli helicopter...
Elul understood that the Phalangists were talking about the murder of women and children, and told Yaron what he had overheard. Yaron went over to Hobeika and spoke with him quietly for five minutes, but Elul could not hear what was said. An hour later, a Phalangist liaison officer reported to Israeli officers, including Yaron, that the Phalangists had killed large numbers of people inside the camp...