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...United Nations peace-keeping forces and regular Lebanese army units. Last February, he announced that he was extending his control over the entire 28-mile-wide zone that Israel has said is essential to its security. This part of Lebanon has 600,000 residents, who are predominantly Shi'ite Muslims. But it also includes a substantial number of Christians, Sunni and Druze Muslims, as well as some 200,000 Palestinians...
...Haddad's control is far from complete. There are a number of other armed groups as well, including the paramilitary Shi'ite organization Amal, which is Haddad's main rival. Hundreds of other Christian militiamen, some attached to the Phalangist-dominated Lebanese Forces, have also moved into the south. The chief victims of the resulting violence have been Palestinian refugees, who were left defenseless by the departure of the Palestine Liberation Organization last August. Last week alone, masked gunmen killed six Palestinians near Sidon. Some 1,000 others have been forced at gunpoint to abandon their homes...
...blast, an anonymous caller warned Agence France-Presse that the strike was "part of the Iranian revolution's campaign against imperialist targets throughout the world." The man identified himself as a member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made up of Shi'ite Muslims loyal to Ayatullah Khomeini. Yet within a day, two other terrorist groups had also claimed responsibility. Though the attacker remains unknown, the motive was not in doubt: to bully Washington and upset the course of U.S. policy in the Middle East...
Still, Zia has shown himself to be an artful master of political compromise at home and abroad. When Shi'ite Muslims protested against the government's Koran-based compulsory tithing scheme, Zia backed off. He has also moved carefully in his rapprochement with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, with whom he would like to negotiate a no-war pact, and in his efforts to keep lines of communications open to the nettlesome Khomeini regime in Tehran. Zia will need all the political acumen he can muster if he is to negotiate successfully the narrow, obstacle-ridden path...
Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein has fended off Khomeini's appeals to Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, who make up 55% of the population, to rise against the Sunni-dominated regime. To counter the appeal of religious confraternity with Iran's Shi'ites, Saddam Hussein has exploited traditional Arab-Persian enmity. But he realizes that Iraqis are sick of war. "We have tried all means, we have knocked on all the doors [to try to end the fighting]," he said last week. Iraq has repeatedly stated that it was willing to negotiate a peace treaty with Iran...