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Seesaw Battle. At dawn Tuesday, the main Syrian drive, backed by Christian rightist troops, rolled from Sofar toward the last two Palestinian-leftist strongholds east of Beirut, the once fashionable resort towns of Bhamdoun and Aley. Slipping around Bhamdoun under cover of darkness, 4,000 Syrian troops attacked from the west. They waged a seesaw battle through the streets of the town, leaving heavy casualties on both sides, and the stubborn Palestinian resistance slowly crumbled. By week's end, with Syrian tanks established in the main square and parts of the town ablaze, only a few pockets of Palestinians...
...July 21, 1973, in the Norwegian resort town of Lillehammer, members of an Israeli assassination squad shot and killed a Moroccan waiter thought to be the chief of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Black September terrorists. The man was innocent, the Israeli agents were arrested. Perhaps the most serious consequence of the blunder was that the Mossad, the Israeli spy agency responsible for the killing, lost its reputation for reliability. When, a few days before the October War, the organization produced plans for the Arab attack, Israel's leaders were not convinced that the plans were genuine...
...impromptu pillage, Road Manager Ron Eckerman, 24, promptly pays damage bills averaging $1,000 a month. That does not heal all wounds. In many cities, none of the major hotels will rent rooms to Lynyrd Skynyrd. When the band is booked in Atlanta, for example, they stay at a resort an hour's drive from the city. Wilkeson is not concerned. "We're hot now," he says. "Let's keep running...
...rocket barrage from their positions in the Bekaa. As town after town was hit, Palestinian defenders took advantage of the mist and smoke from exploding rounds to slip out of their positions. Arafat himself had nearly been hit earlier when Syrian gunners rained shells and rockets into Aley, a resort town on the Beirut-Damascus highway where the P.L.O. leader was conferring with his military commanders in a luxury villa...
...development's 132 new houses. In Huntington Harbor, a marina complex south of Los Angeles, Christiana Co. recently offered 52 houses, ranging in price from $104,000 to $195,000. In all, 111 people showed up, and the firm also had to resort to a lottery...