Word: militiamen
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...Beirut buried its latest dead, Lebanese authorities and Western diplomats suspected that the most recent attacks on the Christian quarters were the work not only of Druze militiamen but of their Syrian backers. In retaliation, perhaps, the Druze-owned Summerland Hotel was bombed last week, killing six and injuring 20. By striking at the hotel, the bombers attacked a symbol of Beirut's will to endure; Israeli shells nearly wrecked the complex during last year's war, but Owner Raja Saab rebuilt it in five months at a cost of $10 million. The hotel and its beach club...
...Lebanon, the sword of violence always seems to be unsheathed and ready to strike. Two Israeli soldiers were killed last week when a bomb exploded as their truck rumbled along a highway in southern Lebanon. In downtown Beirut, Lebanese army soldiers battled Shi'ite Muslim militiamen after government police tried to evict Shi'ite squatters from an abandoned school. Seven people died, including two soldiers. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Druze villagers clashed with a Lebanese army patrol. The toll: two dead and 18 wounded. The last incident carried ominous implications since the Lebanese army...
...marked contrast, Israel's Commission of Inquiry did not shrink from concluding that the massacre was the work of right-wing Lebanese Phalangist militiamen. It found a number of Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Menachem Begin, negligent and recommended that Defense Minister Ariel Sharon resign...
...cruel abruptness last month when two dozen young toughs burst into the convent, smashed furniture, vandalized supplies, and savagely beat six committee members. From the minute the men came in, there was little doubt as to their identity: they were openly carrying police walkie-talkies. A few days later, militiamen picked up the teen-age son of a volunteer in another part of Warsaw and severely beat him. He died of his injuries...
...Beirut. But a variety of Lebanese groups are also sniping at the Israelis. The Lebanese National Resistance Front, an underground organization composed of leftists sympathetic to the P.L.O., claimed responsibility last week for the Chouf ambush. In the far south, near the Israeli border, pro-Iranian Shi'ite militiamen have carried out repeated attacks against Israeli forces...