Beirut truce panel fails to meet
NZPA-Reuter Beirut Beirut’s battlefronts fell silent yesterday after a day of fighting during which, security sources said, at least two people had been killed and six wounded.
The fighting, which included sporadic shelling of residential districts, continued until dark despite a cease-fire agreed on by leaders of Lebanon’s factions meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, to seek an over-all peace settlement. A four-party security committee in Beirut, revived by the Lausanne conference to stabilise the truce, failed to meet because of the unexplained absence of the delegate of the Druse Progressive Socialist Party.
United States Embassy officials, meanwhile, said that they still had no news of a diplomat, William Buckley, who was kidnapped in west Beirut on Friday by unknown gunmen. It was reported earlier that Washington had turned to Muslim militias, the Lebanese Government, and Syria for help in finding Mr Buckley. Robert Pugh, deputy chief of the United States mission in Beirut, said that the two main militias that control west Beirut “have tried hard to be co-operative with us" in finding Mr Buckley, aged 35, who was kidnapped outside his flat. In Lausanne, the Lebanese leaders are heading into a possible finale to a week of peace talks today.
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