The World - News from Sept. 8, 1985
Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami called for Syrian troops to impose order in West Beirut after the latest outbreak of militia fighting in the capital’s Muslim sector. Karami told reporters, “I see no other force . . . but the Syrian army” able to end the fighting between Shia Muslim and Druze militias. In other violence in the Beirut area, meanwhile, Shia militiamen traded gunfire with Palestinian guerrillas in the besieged Borj el Brajne refugee camp.
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