Word: shied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...madness came in a variety of forms. In southern Lebanon, Israel's measured troop withdrawal has bogged down in an increasingly violent guerrilla war conducted by Shi'ite Muslim activists who have been attacking the departing troops at every opportunity. Those assaults, and Israeli countermeasures, last week claimed at least 60 lives in some of the bloodiest clashes since resistance to the Israeli occupation first surfaced 21 months...
...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...
...whole world will see that we can get to the heart of Israel itself." The various groups claimed that the attack was a response to two bombings in Lebanon the previous week. One, in the village of Marakah, had taken a dozen lives. The second, in a densely populated Shi'ite suburb of Beirut, had killed 75 people and injured more than 250. While any of several groups could have been responsible, Shi'ite leaders blamed Israel and vowed revenge...
...after the assault on its convoy, the Israeli army attacked the Shi'ite town of Zrariyah (pop. 9,000) with tanks and armored personnel carriers. Several hundred Israeli troops met some resistance from Lebanese soldiers and Shi'ite militiamen, but the column continued on into Zrariyah. Automobiles were machine-gunned, and the armored vehicles rolled over several cars, crushing them like discarded tin cans. In one destroyed vehicle there was at least one passenger, but he appeared to have been killed earlier by gunfire...
...country may be falling apart, but the relative positions of the occupying powers, Israel and Syria, probably remain about the same. In the south, the Israelis are continuing their painful withdrawal, while the Syrians are profiting from the activities of the Shi'ite militants. In the Christian north, a pro-Israeli faction is posing a threat. If the situation there gets any worse, the Syrians may feel obliged to rescue the Gemayel government by military means, thereby angering Syria's Lebanese Muslim allies and setting the stage for still another round of political and sectarian violence...