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Even as Hussein was delivering the speech that ended his peace overture, more fighting was going on 100 miles to the northwest. Early last week a Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist group called the Islamic Resistance Front, which is dominated by the Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), attacked a small Israeli convoy in southern Lebanon and kidnaped two wounded Israeli soldiers. Within hours, some 1,200 Israeli troops pounded across the border in their biggest operation since their army withdrew from southern Lebanon last June. The mission: not only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root...
Intelligence and diplomatic sources in France and the Middle East believe the bombings are a new attempt by Shi'ite terror groups to pressure the French government into releasing imprisoned terrorists in exchange for four Frenchmen kidnaped last year in Beirut. The terrorist attacks did nothing to improve the prospects for the European tourist industry. American bookings have fallen off so sharply in some countries that one Greek tourism official called it a "biblical catastrophe...
...Hobeika, who fled to Paris and then to Damascus. The fight stems from Gemayel's rejection of a Syrian-brokered agreement that was supposed to have brought an end to Lebanon's eleven-year-long civil war. The accord was signed by leaders of Lebanon's Druze and Shi'ite Muslim militias and even by Hobeika, but was turned down by Gemayel because it would have reduced the Christian community's political power. The enraged Syrians told Gemayel, following his eleventh meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, "There will not be a twelfth summit." Renewed fighting immediately broke...
...celebration, however, was mixed with restraint, as if the country understood that it had won a small victory in a larger war with no end yet in sight. Late last week another skirmish in that war may have taken place. In | Beirut, the Shi'ite terrorist group known as Islamic Jihad distributed blurred photographs purporting to show the body of U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, kidnaped 18 months ago. The State Department was skeptical of the claim...
...view, it was crucial to keep the Achille Lauro from docking anywhere. Seared into the memory of Administration officials was last June's TWA hijacking ordeal. When the captured jetliner was allowed to land at Beirut airport, its Shi'ite hijackers were able to disperse their 37 hostages into the surrounding urban slums, dragging out the kidnaping drama for 17 days. This time Administration crisis managers were also thinking that a rescue in international waters would be far easier than one in Syria or Lebanon...