The World - News from Feb. 19, 1985
A car bomb exploded outside a Shia Muslim militia office in Beirut, killing three people and injuring more than 40. In Sidon, the southern port evacuated by Israeli troops over the weekend, Shias tore down Lebanese flags and obliterated pictures of President Amin Gemayel, a Christian. In other violence, two Israeli soldiers were killed in ambushes behind Israel’s new south Lebanon front line, the Israeli military announced. Meanwhile, former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, in Beirut on a mission to try to rescue four kidnaped Americans, decided against returning home immediately, his lawyer said. Ali now plans a trip to Damascus.
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