Word: nabatiyah
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Along the coastal highway north of the Israeli border, road signs in Hebrew point the way to Beirut, Nabatiyah, Sidon and other cities. Israeli military policemen with red armbands and white helmets direct traffic at key intersections, and the road has been newly blacktopped to speed the transport of Israeli men and materiel. As the highway approaches Beirut, it passes several large encampments of Israeli soldiers...
...rule, the Israelis have left municipal governments alone. Says Ibrahim Adnan, underprefect of the Nabatiyah region: "Frankly, the Israeli troops don't interfere at all in our affairs." But that, to some Lebanese, is precisely the problem. A Lebanese police officer who has not received a paycheck from Beirut since the invasion complains bitterly that the Israelis are not doing enough to restore order. Says an Israeli officer: "We had to find a way not to be a military government, but at the same time to get things done...
...world has not been fair to the Palestinians." He tells of a Palestinian mother, the wife of a P.L.O. officer, who escaped West Beirut with her baby and came to the Israeli headquarters for protection. Mother and child were cared for and escorted safely south to Nabatiyah. The story is not told to create a good impression. The officer is 58, jaded, a former air force pilot. Having survived four crashes, he claims the right to optimism...
Ahead of the central column, Israeli jets had been bombing the town of Nabatiyah for several hours. A Skyhawk fighter, hit by a P.L.O. SA-7 missile, burst into an orange ball of flame. The pilot, Captain Aharon Achiaz, parachuted to earth, where he was attacked by a group of villagers. Then he was taken by P.L.O. guerrillas and rushed off to Beirut. There he appeared at a press conference, where he smilingly declared: "I have been treated very well. I am not afraid." He was the first Israeli pilot shot down in combat since...
Palestinian spokesmen last week insisted that Israel had broken the ceasefire first with heavy artillery barrages on Nabatiyah and nearby Beaufort Castle, an ancient crusader fortress below Mount Hermon that has been used by Palestinians as an observation post. In retaliation, the 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...