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...Israel is maintaining a naval blockade of several leftist-controlled Lebanese ports, particularly Sidon and Tyre, thus keeping arms from reaching beleaguered leftist-Palestinian forces. The Israelis have so far intercepted 15 ships and torpedoed three others that tried to escape their patrols. Of the 15, six were ordered to Haifa, where weapons were removed-and later shipped on to Lebanese Christians-and several terrorists were apprehended...
With Syrian ground forces in control of Beirut airport and the port of Tripoli, and Syrian missile boats sealing off the ports of Sidon and Tyre against arms and ammunition resupply-for leftist and Palestinian forces, both Arafat and the leader of the Lebanese left, Kamal Jumblatt, were under pressure to come to an accommodation. Beirut remained under Syrian siege, its food and gasoline supplies severely depleted, its hospitals filled with the victims of continuing sporadic fighting between right and left. If the end was not in sight, Assad's pressure gamble appeared to be making slow headway. "Middle...
...speech was beamed by satellite. Not since the heyday of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had any speech been so eagerly awaited. On the streets of Beirut and Cairo, people gathered round anyone carrying a transistor radio to listen in. In the refugee camps of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, a holiday was declared; schools were closed, and employees of the U.N. refugee agency took...
Last week in an unusual naval operation, the Israelis finally retaliated. Israeli missile boats anchored under cover of night off the Lebanese ports of Tyre, Sidon and Sarafand. An elite crew of frogmen carrying timed explosives swam the two miles to shore and blew up 21 or more Lebanese fishing vessels. A few hours later, the boats sped safely back to Haifa...
...goods from the port of Beirut through Syria to merchants in the gulf sheikdoms. In addition to its own growing oil revenues, Syria gets an estimated $125 million in fees from the oil pipeline from Iraq to Banias and the Tapline from Saudi Arabia to the Lebanese port of Sidon...