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...Arab states distrust each other's intentions in Lebanon. Specifically, many of the leaders were unhappy about the 21,000-man Syrian force that President Hafez Assad had dispatched to Lebanon; initially sent to impose an armistice between the warring factions, the Syrians later sided with the rightist Christians in battles against the Moslem leftists and their Palestinian allies. In Riyadh, the Arab leaders agreed that some or all of the Syrian troops would be part of the new peace-keeping force, which is to be bankrolled largely by the Saudis (estimated cost: $90 million in the first...
Seesaw Battle. At dawn Tuesday, the main Syrian drive, backed by Christian rightist troops, rolled from Sofar toward the last two Palestinian-leftist strongholds east of Beirut, the once fashionable resort towns of Bhamdoun and Aley. Slipping around Bhamdoun under cover of darkness, 4,000 Syrian troops attacked from the west. They waged a seesaw battle through the streets of the town, leaving heavy casualties on both sides, and the stubborn Palestinian resistance slowly crumbled. By week's end, with Syrian tanks established in the main square and parts of the town ablaze, only a few pockets of Palestinians...
...nearby Aley, military headquarters of Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt, the Syrian onslaught seemed equally overwhelming. Lebanese rightist troops had attacked the town just ten days ago but the Palestinians had beaten them back. They had also mined the main road and lined it with sandbag barricades. The Syrians opened with barrages of rockets, sent in swarms of low-flying MIG fighters, then followed with tanks. Said one fedayeen who fled from a burning house: "They use their rockets like we use our guns. We fire 30 bullets and they fire 30 rockets." Palestinian radio broadcasts appealed to Arab nations...
...desperate students managed to escape by the Chao Phya River at the rear of the campus. Others who ran for the streets were set on by the rightist mob. Several were beaten close to death, then hanged, or doused with gasoline and set afire. One was decapitated. The bodies of the lynched victims strung up on trees were mutilated by rioters, who gouged out their eyes, slit their throats and lashed at them with clubs and chains...
...Both the rightist and leftist Spanish press rallied to their defense, holding demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona to protest the act of terrorism...