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United Nations refugee officials estimated that between 10,000 and 20,000 Christians were made homeless by the fighting. It was the Christians' worst setback since the Chouf Mountain war in 1983, when more than 100,000 were displaced as a result of Druze victories following the Israeli pullout from the mountains. The fighting cast a shadow over Lebanon's few moments of joy last week. They came when Israel pulled back its troops from the port city of Tyre, which has been occupied since the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6, 1982. As Israeli...
...Israeli withdrawal, which completed the second phase of a three-phase pullout from Lebanon, was also greeted with relief by the Israelis. The Tyre region had been one of the most hazardous of the occupation, with roadside bombs and ambushes becoming almost routine. Israeli forces remain in a buffer zone stretching along the frontier, but they are expected to pull out altogether no later than early June. Some Israeli analysts, however, are questioning whether the military presence can be ended entirely. The betting is that the Israeli army will continue to operate on both sides of the border for some...
...specific decision. In the Middle East, Weinberger's fears of entrapment in a drawn-out conflict fought without public support caused him at first to oppose sending Marines to Lebanon and then to insist on their withdrawal after terrorist attacks left 266 U.S. servicemen dead. Shultz objected that the pullout would undercut U.S. diplomacy in the area, and still regards it as a mistake. But Ronald Reagan ordered the withdrawal anyway and won the approval of voters, even though critics portrayed the pullout as a national humiliation. The reason, suggests Democratic Political Analyst William Schneider, is that the President sensed...
...does, the Israelis are beginning to view the Shi'ite opposition in southern Lebanon as an armed struggle of much broader scope than they had previously thought. Some Labor ministers in the government, including Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, are in fact in favor of completing the pullout earlier than this summer's planned deadline. That mood was reinforced early in the week when Israeli soldiers in an army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column...
...only violence that day occurred when armed men dragged a pajama-clad man, suspected of collaborating with the Israelis, from his house, bundled him into a car trunk and drove off. All told, half a dozen alleged collaborators are believed to have been killed in Sidon since the pullout. Many others had fled Sidon earlier...