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...weeks when Syrian mediators, led by Khaddam and backed by up to 4,000 troops of the Syrian-trained Palestine Liberation Army, proposed the ceasefire. Under its terms, the P.L.A. was responsible for enforcing order in Moslem areas, while the Lebanese Army and security forces, in cooperation with rightist Christian militias, patrolled Christian sectors of the country. Within a few days, rival groups of gunmen had been separated. Widespread looting stopped after some lawbreakers were shot on sight by the P.L.A. and others were summarily tried and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. At week's end truce violations were...
Infuriated by the attack, Moslem forces struck at Christian communities throughout the country. Amid rightist charges of massacre, they captured the coastal towns of Damur (see box) and Jiye, driving out thousands of Christians...
...twelve miles south of Beirut along the coastal highway. Damur is in a mountainous region of Lebanon known as the Chouf. The area is home to two of Lebanon's best-known political leaders, Maronite Christian Camille Chamoun and Druze Kamal Jumblatt. Last week, in retaliation for a rightist Christian attack on a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, leftist and Druze militiamen, led by fedayeen officers, laid siege to Damur, an important road junction and rightist stronghold. For five days it was shelled by mortars and rockets. TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager visited the town after the shelling...
...involvement in the fall revolt, and more arrests were expected to follow last week's report. To make room for the leftists, the government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo has quietly released nearly all of the political prisoners who were rounded up after the abortive rightist coup of March 1975. Even some 200 former agents of Caetano's hated secret police, PIDE, have been released, as has former Interior Minister César Moreira Baptista, under whom they operated...
With the farmers' support, the Center Social Democrats, a rightist, free-enterprise party that won only 7% of the vote in last April's elections, confidently expects to become at least the nation's third largest party. The center-left Popular Democrats, although hurt by internal party divisions, are also expected to gain strength in the spring voting, perhaps even outpolling Mario Scares' moderately leftist Socialists, the largest vote getters in last spring's elections. A secret army poll recently leaked to the press predicted a meager 6% vote for Portugal's Communist Party...