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...this we have two other major participants stirring the pot the Syrians, who control the Bekaa Valley, and the PLO, which controls Tripoli to the north. To the south, Israel occupies southern Lebanon...
...many as 2,000 of them are back in the areas to the east and north of Beirut, and Arafat seemed almost unchanged last week (save for the disappearance, perhaps only temporarily, of his famous beard) when he addressed a Palestinian crowd outside the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli. Scarcely three months ago, he had been expelled from Syria, which backed his opponents in a P.L.O. factional dispute. Now, as he spoke in an area of Lebanon controlled by the Syrians, he acknowledged that there had been "some differences" between himself and Assad, and added that "we are trying...
...enjoyed the support of as many as 2,000 Palestinian guerrillas, some from the various Palestinian groups that are opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and some from other Palestinian units under Syrian control. Two weeks ago Arafat showed up in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, and last week he tried to enhance his weakened position within the PL.O. by announcing that Palestinians had joined the fighting in the mountains as part of their struggle against Israel. In actuality, the Syrian-dominated Palestinian units engaged in the combat were trying to entrench themselves throughout as much...
...were presumably exaggerated for propaganda reasons, Western diplomats believe that Syria has allowed between 1,000 and 1,500 Palestinians, many of them loyal to Syrian-based Palestinian Rebel Leader Said Mousa, to join the fighting. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat arrived unexpectedly in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli late last week, perhaps because of his concern over the growing involvement of various Palestinian factions...
...Lebanon, Assad is fanning the flames of hatred among various factions. Pro-and anti-Syrian militias clashed in the northern port of Tripoli last week, while Druze and Christian fighters exchanged fire in the Chouf Mountains southeast of Bei rut. The Druze, who are supported by Syria, have organized a coalition with the deliberate aim of under mining the government of President Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian. Earlier this month, government newspapers in Syria bluntly called for Gemayel's resignation. Meanwhile, in an attempt to gain greater leverage over the Palestine Liberation Organization, Assad shored up a rebellion against...