Word: litanies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adviser to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, for talks in Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and the Vatican. Habib hopes to persuade Jordan's King Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad to pressure the Palestine Liberation Organization into withdrawing its guerrilla forces in Lebanon north of the Litani River. Lebanese army units would be beefed up and U.N. peace-keeping forces (UNIFIL) increased from 6,000 to 10,000. At the same tune, Habib hopes to convince the Israelis that they must control their aggressive, surrogate Christian militia south of the Litani, led by Major...
...Israelis continued their harassment elsewhere, hitting the city of Tyre and Palestinian guerrilla locations around the Litani River. Most of the victims were not Palestinian terrorists but innocent people. In one incident, five Palestinian civilians were killed and 25 were wounded when the Israelis bombed a refugee camp at Al Mohmara, 60 miles north of Beirut, during a wedding ceremony. The dead were all members of the same family...
Within 14 hours of the raid on Nahariya, Israeli gunboats began a four-day barrage of Palestine Liberation Organization bases along the coast, and Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian artillery emplacements north of the Litani River. The Israelis also caused heavy damage in several Lebanese cities and towns, including Tyre. According to the Palestinians, Israeli planes dropped U.S.-made cluster bombs on the villages of Sarafand and Arnoun. In all, at least 50 people were killed in the Israeli attacks. Soon thousands of Lebanese were trying to flee northward, as they had done during the fighting a year ago, taking with...
...purging Israeli-trained officers from the Lebanese army and dismantling the various factions' checkpoints and military facilities in Beirut, thus leaving only the Syrian army responsible for security in the capital. Assad's goal is to have a Syrian presence throughout Lebanon, except for the areas south of the Litani River, which are patrolled by units of the 6,000-man United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL...
...Tyre pocket, an area along the coastal plains of southern Lebanon that lies between the Israeli line and the Litani, is under the control of the Palestinians. This became clear when, in response to a request to visit Tyre, a U.N. liaison officer warned: "You could try it, but you might be arrested. They would arrest anyone from Israel." Palestinian troops patrol the pocket, set up roadblocks, question and detain whomever they want. The only way to travel, suggested the U.N. official, was to get rid of anything-papers, money, candy wrappers, that would indicate you were from Israel...