The World - News from Jan. 14, 1986
Lebanon’s strongest Christian militia battled with followers of President Amin Gemayel for control of East Beirut and the country’s Christian heartland, northeast of the capital. According to reports from the Christian president’s mountain stronghold at Metn, gunmen of the Lebanese Forces have bottled up Gemayel’s Falangist Party loyalists there.
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