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- <text id=91TT1545>
- <title>
- July 15, 1991: World Notes:Lebanon
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- LEBANON
- Tough Times For the P.L.O.
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Things are going from bad to worse for the Palestine
- Liberation Organization. Just as it struggles to recover the
- credibility it lost by supporting Saddam Hussein, the organization
- has suffered a serious military setback in Lebanon. After its
- 5,000 fighters near the port city of Sidon were pummeled by the
- newly assertive Lebanese Army last week, the P.L.O. agreed to stop
- using Lebanon as a military staging area. The group has now lost
- its only base within striking distance of Israel.
- </p>
- <p> Until last week's fighting, the Palestinians had refused
- to follow the lead of most of Lebanon's armed groups and bow to
- the government's authority. In ejecting them, however,
- President Elias Hrawi was also aiming to compel Israel to
- withdraw from the security zone it set up in southern Lebanon
- in 1985 to shield against guerrilla attacks. The Israeli Defense
- Ministry said its forces would stay put.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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