The World - News from Aug. 13, 1985
Militiamen battled across Beirut’s dividing line, with both Christian and Muslim gunners attacking residential areas of the other side with artillery fire. As many as 16 people were reported killed and 75 wounded--among the latter Souha Chahin, 20, this year’s Miss Lebanon, a student at the American University of Beirut. The exchanges represented the fiercest combat in weeks in Beirut--where Syria, as Lebanon’s power broker, has been trying to impose a peace settlement. The battle also came amid intensified Muslim demands for the resignation of President Amin Gemayel, a Christian.
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