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...cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border that had been in effect since last July. The Israelis' immediate explanation for the bombings: retaliation for a series of Palestinian truce violations, including the death last week, in a landmine explosion, of an Israeli soldier who had himself been on patrol in Lebanese territory...
From West Germany. Argentina acquired two patrol boats, two conventional Type 209 (Salta) submarines and 125 TAM medium tanks...
From Israel. The weaponry includes 26 Daggers (modified Mirages) and four patrol boats...
...Portsmouth, for review. Decks scrubbed white, brasswork gleaming, wheelhouse glass sparkling, the ships stretched along the coast in four lines seven miles long. There were 173 in all, including more than 50 battleships. At the same time, 160 other units of the Queen's Grand Fleet were on patrol in every sea in the world...
...West Bank, fighting flared again. In the village of Ya'bid, near Jenin, a band of Arab youths, armed with knives and homemade firebombs, attacked an Israeli army patrol. The soldiers opened fire, wounding three Arabs. Elsewhere, three soldiers were injured in stoning incidents, and a member of a village council in the Hebron area was wounded slightly when a pipe bomb exploded beneath his car. Overall, however, a measure of normality seemed to be returning to the West Bank. The towns of Ramallah and Nablus remained heavily guarded by Israeli troops, but the strike that had closed down...