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Maksoud said the Israelis used the recent Palestinian raid as a pretext for acquisition of land south of the Litani River that Israel has long coveted...
Bloody violence broke out once more last week across the border between Israel and Lebanon. From bases below the Litani River, Palestinian fedayeen launched a series of attacks with Soviet-made Katyusha rockets on the Israeli coastal town of Nahariya. Three Israelis, one a 35-year-old mother of two, were killed and five wounded...
...Katyushas were launched on Nahariya from Hill 352, apparently by soldiers of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Israeli military commanders believed that Syria might have condoned the rocketing, since the trucks that carried the Katyushas had not been halted at Syrian checkpoints just north of the Litani River. (The river marks the "Red Line" of Israel, below which it will not allow Syrian troops...
...army arrives-that could take two to three weeks-three battalions of 350 men each will patrol a six-mile-wide zone along the Israeli border. They will man checkpoints and replace P.L.O. combatants in that area. The agreement is that the Palestinians will then pull back to the Litani; they say they will obey the rules. After all, they point out, it was the Palestinians who first suggested the new arrangement in the south several months...
...seeing artillery on the stony ridges around them. Already, though, a few people are going back to look over their houses-or what is left of them. They are not sure they will stay, but, if the weather permits, they will let their children swim in the Litani River, just as they used to in better days...