The World - News from Sept. 21, 1986
French peacekeeping troops, under persistent attack in recent weeks, evacuated six positions in southern Lebanon, U.N. sources said. The evacuation near Tyre in southern Lebanon came a day after five French soldiers were wounded, two seriously, when their bunker was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. The French troops, assigned to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, were replaced at two of the positions by Nepalese soldiers of the peacekeeping force.
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