The World - News from July 22, 1985

Money and arms are pouring into Palestinian camps near Sidon, arousing fears of an attempt by Yasser Arafat to provoke a conflict there, a Lebanese legislator said. Nazih Bizri, a Sidon deputy in the Lebanese Parliament, told the Beirut weekly Monday Morning that he believes the Palestine Liberation Organization leader is trying to take over the Ein el Hilwa and Miye ou Miye camps as power bases in southern Lebanon. He added that Sidon’s Syrian-backed Muslim leaders regard pro-Arafat forces as “hostile elements and factors of tension and maybe confrontation.”