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UNIFIL already faces plenty of problems. It has no overall commander in Lebanon, so major decisions must be referred to the Jerusalem headquarters of Major General Emmanuel Erskine, a Ghanaian. So far, the backbone of the U.N. force is composed of 627 French paratroopers based in Tyre and 690 Norwegians stationed in the eastern sector of the ceasefire line. The French are tough soldiers, the Norwegians well trained and professional. But neither unit is familiar with the Arab world or has had much fighting experience. "The only combat most of them have seen," remarks one Western military observer...
...meantime, commandos were attacking the southern Lebanese coastline. Missile boats strafed the port of Tyre, and air force planes bombed the Palestinian strongholds at Damur, Tyre and Ouzai. Frogmen landed at several points along the coast and attacked Palestinian command posts, killing several officials. In most cases, however, the Palestinian leadership had already left. In Beirut, top P.L.O. leaders had learned...
Farther south in Tyre, all that remained of a population that once numbered 45,000 was a few hundred aged Lebanese civilians and scores of teen-age Palestinian fighters. Smoke rose from the ruins of a building hit by Israeli bombs. Palestinians and Lebanese dug through rubble in search of bodies. The bombardment seemed to have been indiscriminate, both from the air and from ships offshore. Except for one Palestinian antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of town, no military targets had been hit. The port remained undamaged. What had been hit, and hard, was the civilian dwellings. Was this deliberate...
...Nearby Hinniyah suffered a similar fate. Burj al Shamali, the Palestinian refugee camp, fared somewhat better, although its hospital was half destroyed by bombs that killed nine children inside. Taking casualties at Tyre General Hospital, a few miles away on the coast, Dr. Yussek Iraki angrily said: 'All the people I have treated were 100% civilians. None was a Palestinian fighter...
...second score, a typical St. Louis goal, began when the stellar freshman received a pass from Wendy Sands just outside the penalty area. After controlling the ball, St. Louis turned and eluded a B.U. fullback, then rammed a solid shot that slipped through the freezing hands of net minder Tyre...