Truce shattered
NZPA-Reuter Beirut The sound of machine-gun fire and sporadic shelling yesterday morning shattered a shaky undeclared cease-fire in two tense southern Beirut suburbs.
Guarded optimism that a cease-fire was holding faded as Lebanese Rightists in Christian Ain Rummaneh and Leftist militiamen in Muslim Shivah clashed for the fourth day running. The fighting has already claimed at least 12 dead and 40 wounded.
The Rightist Falangist Radio said six shells fell in Ain Rummaneh in the space of two hours yesterday morning, but no casualties were reported.
At least 12 people wert killed and more than 40 wounded in the fighting, which each side said had been started by the other. The clashes, involving heavy machine-guns and rockets, erupted as Lebanon approached the third anni» versary of the Rightist attack on a busload of Palestinians which triggered the long and bloody Lebanese civil war.
At Rashaya Foukhar, in the south of Lebanon, Israeli soldiers pulled back a short distance from their forward positions yesterday in a first, reluctant stage of the full withdrawal decreed by the United Nations Security Council.
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