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...course, paid any attention. At about 9 one morning last week, an unidentified man simply parked an automobile in a bustling neighborhood in the southern Lebanese coastal town of Sidon and walked away. Moments later, an explosion ripped through the street, virtually destroying the seven-story regional headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its leftist Lebanese allies, the 13-party National Movement, where a meeting of officials was due to convene within the hour...
...dogfights to Israeli jets over the past 18 months. As if to underscore that superiority, Israel last week also intensified its aerial attacks against Palestinian positions all across southern Lebanon. In one particularly lethal raid, Israeli jets flew repeated bombing runs over the Lebanese ports of Tyre and Sidon, killing at least 25 civilians...
...biblical port of Sidon, a Palestinian stronghold and occasional target of Haddad attacks, hundreds of townspeople had gathered in the squares to enjoy the holiday. Suddenly, at noon, the festive air was broken by a thunderous barrage of artillery fire. Within minutes, 16 shells exploded in the center of the city, blasting cafés, an amusement hall and a Maronite Christian church. Among the dead were 16 backgammon players in a local café. One survivor was seen running along the road screaming, as he carried the severed torso of a youth...
...where artillery duels broke out across the three-mile Green Line that divides the city's Christian and Muslim sectors. In Southern Lebanon, meanwhile, the Israeli-supported Christian forces of Lebanese Major Sa'ad Haddad shelled Muslim and Palestinian sections of the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon, while Israeli paratroopers launched large-scale attacks against Palestinian strongholds in the area. With concerted international help, Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis managed to obtain a tenuous ceasefire. As International Red Cross convoys rushed into the stricken areas with medical assistance, the country counted the grim toll: at least...
Emblazoned with the star of David, U.S.-supplied F-15s streaked low over the Mediterranean last week, protecting other Israeli planes on a bombing run of suspected Palestinian positions near Sidon and Damour in southern Lebanon. When the Israelis spotted eight Syrian MiG-21s flying toward them in close formation, the F-15 pilots fired their missiles. In the brief but fiery battle, which was joined by Israeli Kfir jets, at least six of the Syrian jets plummeted to earth. The Israelis returned to their home bases unscathed...