Word: militiamen
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...shattered remnants of Beirut last week. On most days, only occasional bursts of machine-gun fire flew across the "green line" separating the Christian eastern part of the city from the predominantly Muslim west. Late in the week, heavier machine-gun and rocket duels erupted between Christian and Muslim militiamen, killing two people and wounding at least 27 others. But in the early stages of the uneasy Pax Syriana imposed two weeks ago by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the main participants in the Lebanese tragedy were trying to shift most of their efforts from shooting to squabbling over the political...
...jetty and disappeared, like Jonah into the whale, inside a landing craft; it was followed by a procession of Jeeps and other vehicles until finally the landing craft pulled away to make room for another. At one point an armored personnel carrier manned by Shi'ite Muslim militiamen rattled past a U.S. observation tower. The driver raised his fist, seemingly in defiance; the two Marines on the tower just stared back. The 18-month assignment of the Marines in Lebanon, a mission that few could either define or explain...
...ghastly reminder of the intensity of those hatreds came last week when Druze militiamen escorted Western reporters and TV crews into the village of Kafr Matta, southeast of Beirut, which they had just recaptured from the Christian Phalangist militia. The badly decomposed bodies of more than 100 Druze men, women and even babies, apparently victims of a massacre five months ago, were found in houses, streets and fields. Some were grouped around tables still bearing the remnants of what had been their last meal; others were frozen in postures indicating they had been gunned down while attempting to flee. Faced...
...sides. Men and matériel will move across a strip of uncontested land directly west of the Marine compound to the beach and out to sea. So far at least, the huge camp breaking was proceeding with remarkable smoothness. Summed up Base Commander Brigadier General James Joy: "The militiamen know our position is that if we are attacked, we are going to defend ourselves very vigorously, and my feeling is that they don't want to get involved." Said Corporal Norman North of Carbondale, Ill.: "I don't feel any differently now than I did a week...
...leathernecks regularly converse with the miltiamen in an effort to keep relations smooth. One sore point arose over the Marines' use of German shepards trained to sniff out explosives carried by passing cars and their occupants. Dogs, explained the Amal, are considered unclean by Muslims. "We told the militiamen we would use the dogs just to check vehicles," says a Marine officer. "They seemed happy with the compromise...