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...Israeli tanks, thereby trapping 14 Israeli soldiers in the wreckage and pinning them down under heavy fire. The Israelis called the ceasefire, which lasted for only 24 hrs., in order to extricate their men. After the resumption of fighting, there were clashes off and on between the Israelis and Syrian and Palestinian forces around the Beirut airport and in the hills east of the city. On Wednesday, a cloud of black smoke hung over West Beirut from a fire at a tire factory that had been hit by Israeli bombs...
Most of the Syrian occupation forces pulled out of West Beirut during the first week of the fighting, and since then the quality of law-and-order in the streets has been erratic. Some shopkeepers complained of armed gangs demanding food or liquor, and rumors spread about car thefts and people forcing their way into gasoline lines at the point of a gun. On the bright side, as one merchant noted: "There is not much looting because there is nowhere to take the Loot. You can't steal it and go off to sell it elsewhere. We are all stuck...
...efforts in Lebanon, and presumably felt that supporting Syria in Lebanon now was not worth taking the risk of worsening relations between the superpowers. Under the terms of a 1980 friendship treaty, Moscow is obliged to consult with Syria on issues of national security, but it has steadfastly resisted Syrian efforts to make the military ties more binding. Even though the Kremlin has promised to make good Syria's war losses, Western diplomats noted last week that military shipments have not been sufficient to replace the 101 MiGs and SAM6 antiaircraft installations destroyed in the opening days...
...Syrian in a crew cut was in the street when a shell hit. His right leg was blown off at the knee. He is engaged to be married. His fiancee in Syria does not know what has happened to him. He wonders if she will still love...
This new phase of high-profile censorship began because of a technical problem. Soon after Israel launched its invasion of Lebanon last month, Syrian troops barricaded the road leading to Beirut's satellite transmission station. For network news teams beaming footage to New York City, the nearest reliable "uplink" was in Israel, at the satellite station in Herzliya. Israel agreed to open those facilities-with strings. Censors in Tel Aviv claimed the right to review shots of shattered residential areas and of wounded and dead civilians, on the ground that such scenes constituted "propaganda" for Israel's "primary...