Word: salvan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose headquarters are just south of Tyre but who are not permitted by the Palestinians to enter the city itself, spoke bitterly about what they called "the lies" being spread about them. Clearly, the French paratroopers have been stunned by the serious wounding of their commander, Colonel Jean-Germain Salvan, in a fight with a Palestinian faction earlier this month. He may be able to walk again in a year's time, but he will never again jump out of a plane...
Arafat, who has been sounding unusually moderate of late, ordered Palestinian groups to keep calm, and Salvan broadcast an appeal to his men: "I am asking that no one should take revenge on my behalf." Alarmed by the rising disorder, the U.N. Security Council voted to increase the size of the U.N.'s force in southern Lebanon from...
...meantime, Salvan, a Palestinian liaison officer and two French soldiers jumped aboard two Jeeps and raced toward the scene of the earlier ambush. Less than a mile away, they too were attacked...
With the reflexes of an old hand at guerrilla warfare, Salvan rolled out of his Jeep on the side away from the firing. Even so, he was hit twelve times, including ten times in the legs. All told, the clashes took the lives of two French troops, one Senegalese, one Palestinian and reportedly four Lebanese terrorists...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, which claims the allegiance of 90% of the estimated 14,000 Palestinian fighters in Lebanon, moved quickly to assure the U.N. that it deplored the incident and would crack down on the group responsible for it. Among the surgeons attending Salvan was Dr. Fathi Arafat, Yasser's brother; one of Salvan's first visitors was the P.L.O. boss himself, bearing flowers...