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Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Every Circle of Hell | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Ghastly Irony. Syria's 15,000 troops in Lebanon now control fully half of the country, allowing the Christians room to maneuver in their drive to mop up their opponents. The bitterest battle of the entire war drags on between Christians and Palestinian commandos at Tel Zaatar (Hill of Thyme), a Palestinian camp on the rim of East Beirut. The battle, in which 1,500 combatants have already been slaughtered, is freighted with ghastly irony. It was the massacre of 27 Tel Zaatar residents by the Christians more than a year ago that first stoked Lebanon's smoldering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Once Again, Palestinians on the Ropes | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...important numbers in the 800-sq.-mi. area were Palestinians in refugee camps. The Christians have leveled some of their heaviest firepower on the camps. Three weeks ago they captured Jisr Basha in East Beirut with heavy casualties, and last week they were mopping up around larger Tel Zaatar, which once housed 17,000 civilian Palestinians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Carving Out a Christian Canton | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Famine War. The Moslem siege of Damur was part of what the Lebanese call the famine war. It began in early January, when Christian forces blockaded two Palestinian refugee camps, Tal al Zaatar and Jisr al Basha. A third camp, Dbayeh, was attacked and captured last week. Christian spokesmen insist that they were not trying to starve out the 30,000 inhabitants of the camps but simply attempting to pinch off shipments of arms. Many observers in Beirut believe the blockades are intended to dramatize the role the Palestinians play as a "state within a state" in Lebanon while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: The Military Raises the Risk of Wider War | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...anxious to preserve the status quo, and helped arrange several of Lebanon's short-lived ceasefires. Until recently, the well-armed P.L.O. guerrillas stayed out of the fighting and even served as a truce-keeping force. Last week, however, rightist militants blockaded Palestinian refugee camps at Tal al Zaatar and Jisr al Basha, preventing food from reaching their 27,000 residents. To break the blockade, the P.L.O. mobilized and attacked rightist strongholds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Debate at the U.N.: The P.L.O. Problem | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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