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...ordeal. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart, returning to Beirut from an overnight visit to Syria, drove along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley." Two days later, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, with the Beirut airport still shut down, hired a taxi for the three-hour drive from Damascus, dodging Syrian tanks on the ground and hearing Israeli jets overhead...
...Israelis pushed north, they began first to skirmish and then to fight with Syrian troops that were deployed in northern Lebanon in 1976 as part of the Arab Deterrent Force to separate warring left-and right-wing Lebanese factions. The Israelis were determined to end Syria's ability to assist the P.L.O. and attacked Syrian positions after publicly warning Damascus not to get involved in the fighting. A bitter confrontation ensued...
...biggest air battles ever in the Middle East, more than 150 Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clashed in the skies over Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The Israeli aircraft destroyed all of the SA-6 ground-to-air missiles that Israel had repeatedly threatened to obliterate. Israeli ground forces rolled to within two miles of the vital Damascus-to-Beirut highway, threatening to sever Syria's supply lifeline to its estimated 30,000 troops in the Bekaa Valley and in Beirut...
Sharon's strategic conduct of the Israeli invasion won praise from military officials. After the Israeli air force successfully destroyed the Syrian missiles that had been deployed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley for more than a year, some of his former opponents in the defense echelon quickly joined Sharon's camp. Said one general: "There is nobody right now who is ready to oppose him or question his orders. He's got the upper hand." Sharon's unchallenged military authority, however, worried some political leaders. Said a veteran observer of the Israeli military scene...
...support from practically every direction. Among its backers have been the Soviet Union, which is trying to form a long-term friendship with Tehran; Syria, which regards Iraq as an implacable enemy; and, in the early days of the war, the Palestine Liberation Organization, which felt obliged to follow Syrian policy because of the strong Syrian role in Lebanon. An unlikely backer of the Tehran regime has been Israel, which regards Iraq as a more dangerous threat than Iran and thereby follows the ancient adage "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Last week Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon...