Word: shying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least theoretically, with the end of that ill-fated adventure. The last Israeli units were expected to be withdrawn by the end of last week, although Jerusalem left around 100 soldiers in a "security zone" north of the Israel-Lebanon frontier. That prompted an outcry from Lebanese Shi'ites, who threaten continued warfare until the last Israeli soldier leaves Lebanon...
...southern Lebanon. According to an Israeli communique quoting the S.L.A., the action came in response to the earlier capture of eleven S.L.A. members by the Finnish soldiers. The communique went on to say that the U.N. troops had taken the S.L.A. men away in vehicles belonging to the Shi'ite Amal militia...
...brother against my cousin. But I, my brother and my cousin against the outsider." That old Arab proverb aptly described the tenuous unity that emerged last week among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they literally fought for their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser...
...managed to bring out 32 wounded Palestinians, but many others were left behind without medical attention. According to some accounts, several Palestinians who had been taken to a hospital were slain in their beds by Amal militiamen. Amal leaders in turn charged that angry Palestinians had murdered some sleeping Shi'ite militiamen in a building outside the Sabra camp...
Berri had clearly underestimated the Palestinians' determination to resist the onslaught. From hilltops east of Beirut, Palestinian gunners belonging to anti-Arafat P.L.O. groups fired artillery and rocket volleys into Amal positions. Whatever their differences with Arafat, his P.L.O. opponents were furious at the strong-arm tactics of the Shi'ites. Said George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "No force on earth can take away the arms of a people who defend their just cause." Abu Mousa, another leading P.L.O. dissident, accused Amal of "disseminating lies to cover its crimes against Palestinians." While...