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Several previous truce agreements, although usually negotiated in good faith by leaders of the warring factions, collapsed because they were unable to control the loosely organized and undisciplined militia nominally under their command. After the mid-January ceasefire negotiated by Karami (TIME, Jan. 26), for example, rightist forces in the capital, composed mostly of Phalangists, the "Tigers" of the National Liberal Party and neighborhood militiamen, attacked two Moslem slum areas, Karantina and Maslakh. Supported by mortars, recoilless rifles and rockets, the rightists pushed out the defenders last week and then leveled the remaining shanties with bulldozers. Scores of Moslems were...
...civil war that has transformed Lebanon into a scarred battlefield took a sudden and risky turn for the worse last week. Two Lebanese air force Hawker-Hunter fighter jets strafed and rocketed Moslem and Palestinian troops that were besieging Damur, a rightist-held town a few miles south of Beirut International Airport. The attack represented the first time that Lebanese armed forces had plunged openly into major combat since the shooting began nine months...
Moslem and leftist militiamen responded to the rightist blockades with sieges against Christian villages. In the north, they surrounded Zgharta, the home town of Christian President Suleiman Franjieh; farther south, tough mountain warriors of the Moslem Druze sect pushed down the strategic coastal road into Damur...
...combination of ultra-rightist, 19th century political values and a unique, personality-oriented, gutter-sniping editorial style, modeled on the journalistic mode of the now defunct Hearst papers, have made Loeb the best known publisher in America. His power base is the Manchester Union Leader, which he bought in 1946, the only state-wide newspaper in New Hampshire. He is also the principal owner of the New Hampshire Sunday News and the Vermont Sunday News. For a good example of where he is at stylistically--if not politically--one might turn to the New Hampshire Sunday paper's response...
...nine-month-old civil war. Arafat is anxious to preserve the status quo, and helped arrange several of Lebanon's short-lived ceasefires. Until recently, the well-armed P.L.O. guerrillas stayed out of the fighting and even served as a truce-keeping force. Last week, however, rightist militants blockaded Palestinian refugee camps at Tal al Zaatar and Jisr al Basha, preventing food from reaching their 27,000 residents. To break the blockade, the P.L.O. mobilized and attacked rightist strongholds...