The World - News from Oct. 16, 1985
Representatives of three of Lebanon’s strongest private militias reportedly agreed on a proposal to stop fighting. Lebanon’s official news agency quoted a Syrian official as saying that the talks, held in Damascus, went smoothly. The talks involved the main Shia Muslim militia, Amal; the Progressive Socialist Party of the Druze, an offshoot Muslim sect, and the Lebanese Forces militia of the Christian Maronites.
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