Word: sidon
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Fighting also broke out between Christian militiamen and the Lebanese Army near the port city of Sidon. By midweek, hundreds of Muslim residents of predominantly Christian villages had fled to Sidon. In the Beirut area, Islamic fundamentalists kidnaped a French diplomat, and two other employees of the French embassy were presumed to have been abducted, bringing to six the number of Westerners who have disappeared in the capital in the past two weeks. A telephone caller to Western news agencies in Beirut claimed that the radical group Islamic Holy War was holding the three...
...local populace, Israel completed the first stage of its planned three-phase withdrawal from Lebanon two weeks ago. But in the army's wake came new visitors to raise ominous questions about the region's future. Two days after the last Israeli convoy of some 40 vehicles had left Sidon (pop. 200,000), the largest city in southern Lebanon, there was a brief invasion of another kind. Into Sidon, by bus from Beirut, came a ragtag army of Shi'ite Muslim militants, swearing vengeance against Israel and Lebanon's Christian leadership and vowing to rebuild the country in the image...
Only minutes after the last Israeli tank had pulled back from the Awali River bridge on Feb. 16, the Lebanese Army began to move into Sidon. Car horns blared, and Lebanese flags appeared everywhere. The festivities were interrupted when two Israeli Kfir fighters dived low over the city and released clouds of leaflets promising swift retaliation in the event of hostile action against Israel's withdrawing forces. But about the only violence that day occurred when armed men dragged a pajama-clad man, suspected of collaborating with the Israelis, from his house, bundled him into a car trunk and drove...
High on a hilltop, bareheaded and wrapped in a green parka, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 61, surveyed the Israeli front lines at the Awali River, just north of the Lebanese coastal town of Sidon. "The whole nation appreciates what you did under difficult conditions," the Prime Minister later told his troops. "We never intended to stay here. But we will still keep our eyes open to what dangers could evolve for Israel...
Saad, leader of Sidon's Sunni Moslem majority and an outspoken critic of Israeli presence in Southern Lebanon, remains in guarded condition in the intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. Saad is conscious and "has made good progress over the last two or three days," said a hospital spokesman...