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Prime Minister Rashid Karami's hopes for extending the peace plan to other parts of Lebanon were further battered last week when two Israeli air force jets destroyed several buildings in the Bekaa Valley, killing or wounding at least 100. The structures were being used, an Israeli spokesman said, as a departure point for attacks by Palestinian guerrillas against Israeli soldiers...
...year. Before a truce was called at week's end, at least 100 people had been killed and more than 200 wounded, most of them civilians. That brought the total number of deaths in the Tripoli fighting since January to 400. The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami, which has been unable to extend its authority to Tripoli, also saw its tenuous grip around the city of Beirut loosen somewhat. Ten people were wounded when fighting erupted once more between rival Christian and Druze militias in the hills overlooking the capital...
...while Israel sorts out the consequences of its election. The Lebanese government withdrew its guards at the Israeli liaison office in a Beirut suburb last week, as a means of forcing Jerusalem to close the building and bring home the 30 officials who worked there. Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami had been pressing Israel for months to shut the office, but Shamir had refused to abandon what amounted to the last shred of the May 17, 1983, withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor Begin...
...traffic will be one of the results of a security plan designed to pave the way for power-sharing talks among Lebanon's clashing factions. The actions not only marked the first success for Prime Minister Rashid Karami's two-month-old government, but reflected the crucial mediation role played by Syria. Nonetheless, a decade of civil war has left the Lebanese understandably skeptical about the chances for lasting peace. As a headline in Beirut's Daily Star newspaper put it, ROSE WATER, RICE AND RESERVATIONS...
Even last week's accomplishment almost never came about. After hand-picking Karami, a Sunni Muslim, in April, the Syrians pressured Lebanon's warlords into joining his Cabinet. Its meetings, however, took place against a backdrop of daily artillery duels between rival militias. As the fighting grew worse, Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam met with the Cabinet at President Amin Gemayel's residence at Bikfaya. According to Lebanese officials, a furious Khaddam promised tough Syrian measures if no compromise was reached. A newly attentive Cabinet appointed a Maronite Christian to head the 25,000-man army...