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...Thursday, Israeli planes destroyed six important bridges in southern Lebanon, thereby cutting the main roads south from Beirut and isolating such Palestinian strongholds as Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Hasbaya. Then on Friday morning, in their fifth strike within seven days, the Israelis launched their assault on Beirut, hitting not only at Palestinian and Syrian positions near Beirut airport and the Kuwaiti embassy but also at the Shatila refugee camp. On Saturday, as Israeli planes made still another raid on southern Lebanon, Palestinian guerrillas lobbed a few more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope...
...been lost in dogfights to Israeli jets over the past 18 months. As if to underscore that superiority, Israel last week also intensified its aerial attacks against Palestinian positions all across southern Lebanon. In one particularly lethal raid, Israeli jets flew repeated bombing runs over the Lebanese ports of Tyre and Sidon, killing at least 25 civilians...
...Beirut, where artillery duels broke out across the three-mile Green Line that divides the city's Christian and Muslim sectors. In Southern Lebanon, meanwhile, the Israeli-supported Christian forces of Lebanese Major Sa'ad Haddad shelled Muslim and Palestinian sections of the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon, while Israeli paratroopers launched large-scale attacks against Palestinian strongholds in the area. With concerted international help, Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis managed to obtain a tenuous ceasefire. As International Red Cross convoys rushed into the stricken areas with medical assistance, the country counted the grim toll...
...determination of the Pilgrims: "I say we can rebuild this nation into a nation that's great, that's a leader. The Pilgrims built it from nothing--we certainly have a lot more to build on than they had." A minute later, we are speaking about Ninevah and Tyre, Sodom and Gomorrah: "If we do not legislate morality, we are going to end up with worse chaos than we have now. In other words, if we say it's okay to go out in the streets and solicit prostitution or homosexuality--well, that's what we're allowing...
...military commander of the area around Tyre, Major Azmi Zughayar, strode to the top of a sand dune in southern Lebanon. There, above the bamboo and sea grass, he pointed with his walking stick across a sliver of eastern Mediterranean to the shore line of Israel beyond. "That is my country," he told a visitor. "How can I forget? How can any of us forget...