The World - News from Sept. 27, 1985
Israeli planes attacked a Palestinian base in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, the military command announced. There was no immediate word on casualties in Israel’s third strike this year against the base, manned by the Abu Moussa faction, a Syrian-backed group that broke away from Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization in 1983. Meanwhile, rival Muslim gunmen shelled civilian areas of Tripoli, killing three people in Lebanon’s second largest city.
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