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...installment of the pullout calls for the Israelis to leave the northwestern sector of occupied territory, around the city of Sidon and along the Awali River, within five weeks. The troops will redeploy from their current lines about 25 miles inside Lebanon to a point between the Zahrani and Litani rivers, anywhere from seven to 20 miles to the south. An exact timetable will be submitted in advance to the Gemayel government and to the U.N. "in order to permit them to organize and deploy forces in the area...
...that was led by Major Saad Haddad until his death last month, and they hope that it will eventually be integrated into the Lebanese army. Still another possibility would be an extension of the role of the 5,600-man U.N. force that is presently deployed south of the Litani River. If the Security Council would authorize it to do so, the U.N. force could extend its area of responsibility to the Awali River...
...Israeli government, as any responsible government would, had a duty, indeed a right, to protect its citizens, under Article 51 of the UN Charter. The 1978 Litani operation failed to prevent subsequent PLO terrorism, so the government was entitled to use whatever means necessary to eradicate the northern threat once and for all. The massive PLO infrastructure necessarily required that the Israelis proceed further than their originally stated 25 mile limit...
Still, UNIFIL managed to delay a few of the Israeli units. A small group of Nepalese troops stubbornly refused to clear Khardala Bridge on the Litani River so that Israeli tanks detouring from the main central advance could pass. Drivers of some 100 Israeli tanks were finally ordered simply to overrun the blockade, pushing the Nepalese aside. On the coastal road, another UNIFIL unit set up roadblocks. The unit watched helplessly as the Israeli tanks pointed their barrels menacingly at them without firing, then bulldozed ahead...
...bulk of the easternmost column rolled steadily ahead through the hilly country, encountering no early P.L.O. resistance. Crossing the Litani River at Akia Bridge, the Israelis moved past a P.L.O. guardhouse abandoned so recently that a coffeepot was still warm...