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...Finally, Syrian forces would withdraw from all parts of Lebanon except the Bekaa Valley, where Syrian antiaircraft missiles were installed last April. At the same time U.N. troops would supervise the removal of all heavy weapons, including the Syrian missiles, from points south of the Zahrani River, which cuts across southern Lebanon north and west of the Litani. At this point, Israeli and Lebanese officials would begin talks on how to make the recent cease-fire a lasting one and how to prevent border violations...
...latest round of attack and counterattack had begun a week earlier when Israeli warplanes staged a strike on Palestinian guerrilla targets near the Zahrani River in southern Lebanon, killing three people and wounding 20. Two days later the Israelis struck again, this time hitting a guerrilla base at Damur, ten miles south of Beirut, killing five and injuring 25. After another two-day interval, the Israelis attacked once more, damaging Palestinian and Lebanese leftist bases near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and at Jazzin and Basir in south central Lebanon. Ten were killed and 90 wounded. In a dogfight between...
...final Syrian checkpoint is at Zahrani, twelve miles north of the Litani River. There a large color poster of President Hafez Assad beams down at the red-bereted paratroopers. South of the checkpoint the road is deserted. The fields are desolate, showing no sign of care or life. Even the crows have flown to richer lands...
Such maneuvers and threats are partly genuine concern molded by experience, but they are also partly brinkmanship. The Syrians are now in no position to force a confrontation with Israel; they are too involved in Lebanon. Syrian units have moved no nearer the border than Zahrani, 30 miles to the north, near Sidon, to protect the oil refinery there, which has now resumed operation. Last week, Damascus quietly renewed the Golan Heights peace agreement with Israel for another six months...