LEBANON: Again, Christian v. Moslem

For the fourth time in six months, bloody fighting broke out in Lebanon last week between heavily armed irregular forces of Moslems and Maronite Christians. The three earlier rounds of street fighting had rocked the capital city of Beirut. The latest battles revolved around Tripoli in the north, Lebanon's second largest city and seaport. Before the Lebanese army was finally ordered into the area to stop the shooting, at least 100 people had been killed. That brought the death toll since the internecine fighting started in April to well over 1,000 people,...

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