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...ongoing struggle between Lebanon's rival Christian factions. Less than a week earlier, 350 died when troops loyal to President Amin Gemayel defeated a militia force headed by Elias Hobeika, who fled to Paris and then to Damascus. The fight stems from Gemayel's rejection of a Syrian-brokered agreement that was supposed to have brought an end to Lebanon's eleven-year-long civil war. The accord was signed by leaders of Lebanon's Druze and Shi'ite Muslim militias and even by Hobeika, but was turned down by Gemayel because it would have reduced the Christian community...
...eight-member U.S. Government team arrived in Tel Aviv to question Israeli officials suspected of involvement in the affair. At the same time, the government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres wrestled with another problem: a rise in tension between Israel and Syria over the Israeli downing of two Syrian MiG fighter planes a month ago. Though some Israeli officials described the matter as a "crisis," to the U.S. Government the danger appeared to have subsided by the time the Israeli public got wind of the impasse. The trouble began Nov. 19 when Israeli jet pilots, accompanying a pair of reconnaissance...
...first the Israelis tried to keep the whole affair secret, even to the point of asking newspaper editors not to print stories about it. Foreign observers concluded from this that the Israelis, though they later leaked some of the details of the Syrian missile emplacements to reporters, were trying hard to avoid a confrontation. As for Assad, he had obviously felt obliged to respond to the loss of his planes. But he knows the limitations of his air force, and seemed unlikely to risk an open fight with the Israelis. Overall, the U.S. felt that whatever tension had existed earlier...
...underscore Jerusalem's position one more time, Israeli jets streaked across eastern Lebanon on an anti-P.L.O. mission early last week. The fighters blasted P.L.O. targets that Israeli officials termed "terrorist bases" near the town of Bar Elias in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley. The bases apparently belonged to the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a dissident faction of the P.L.O. The raid came only a day before Hussein's meeting with Arafat...
...France. Syria has ignored requests to extradite him. Bunte quotes Brunner as saying he is willing to stand trial so that "Israel won't get me." But Brunner apparently would not be allowed to leave Syria if he wanted to: having served for years as an adviser to the Syrian secret service, says Bunte's managing editor, the fugitive "knows too much...