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...crucial Christian-Israeli planning session, reports TIME Correspondent David Halevy, took place at noon Thursday, Sept. 16, at the Israeli command post in Beirut Port. Present was Israeli Major General Amir Drori, head of the Northern Command, and at least three other top Israeli officers. Also present was Fady Frem, the Lebanese Forces Chief of Staff. Frem was accompanied by Elias Hobeika, the Forces' intelligence chief, who had attended the Staff and Command College in Israel. He was to be the main leader of the groups that went into the camps...
...Though the pipeline has been plagued by financing problems and construction start-up delays, it is seen by industry experts as an important complement to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which carries 1.5 million bbl. of crude oil per day from Prudhoe Bay on the Beaufort Sea to the port of Valdez, 800 miles to the south. All together, the entire gas-pipeline network is aimed at ensuring adequate fuel supplies for industrial and home-heating use until the turn of the century and beyond...
MARRIED. Jimmy Breslin, 51, streetwise author and columnist; and Ronnie Eldridge, 51, assistant director for intergovernmental and community relations for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; both for the second time; in New York City...
...Syrian soldiers had been moved by convoy from West Beirut to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. When U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut was informed on Wednesday that the last chartered ship, the Mediterranean Sun, had received clearance from the Israeli navy to sail for the Syrian port of Tartus with 700 Palestinians, the Marine operator replied, "O.K., well done. Now let's go home." That afternoon U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced in Beirut that the Marines would be leaving the Lebanese capital within a few days. Mission accomplished...
...practice in the hands of his partner and son to take the helm of his 41-ft. sloop Driftwood. Dan Byrne, 53, of Santa Monica, Calif., is relying on his wife Patricia to provide shore support; she intends to meet him and his 40-ft. Fantasy in every port...