Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South African military commanders likened it to the Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon, and so it was-on a much smaller scale. Shortly after dawn one morning last week, some 200 South African paratroopers landed by helicopter at the Angolan town of Cassinga. The town lies 155 miles north of Angola's border with Namibia-the vast territory also known as South West Africa that Pretoria has ruled for almost 60 years under an international mandate. The assault force's goal: to deliver a crippling blow to SWAPO (for South West African Peoples' Organization), the radical nationalist...
Weizman's move stemmed from an episode involving Israeli forces on the West Bank who were overzealously cracking down to discourage Arab protests against the incursion into South Lebanon. At Beit Jala, a village five miles south of Jerusalem, a group of soldiers entered the local Arab high school, ordered the students to shut their windows and then tossed cans of U.S.-made antiriot gas into some rooms. A number of students leaped out of second-floor windows to escape the choking gas; ten were hospitalized with various fractures, some crippling...
...United Nations soldiers on duty in southern Lebanon were supposed to be peace keepers, controlling a buffer zone between the Palestinian guerrillas and the Israeli forces, which have now pulled back to a six-mile-wide belt just to the north of the border. But last week the largest of the U.N. contingents, the 1,223 French paratroopers under Colonel Jean-Germain Salvan, found themselves caught in the Middle East's bloody cycle of violence and revenge...
...incident began without warning when a French unit intercepted four armed Arabs near Tyre, the ancient coastal city (pop. 30,000) that serves as a base for many of the Palestinians in southern Lebanon. Someone-each side blamed the other-opened fire; two of the Arabs were killed. A previously unknown group that calls itself the Popular Front for the Liberation of the South from Occupation and Fascism promised revenge. The group is believed by some authorities to be made up not of Palestinians but of Lebanese fighters allied with Dr. George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, which claims the allegiance of 90% of the estimated 14,000 Palestinian fighters in Lebanon, moved quickly to assure the U.N. that it deplored the incident and would crack down on the group responsible for it. Among the surgeons attending Salvan was Dr. Fathi Arafat, Yasser's brother; one of Salvan's first visitors was the P.L.O. boss himself, bearing flowers...