The World - News from Oct. 27, 1986
Shia Muslims of the Amal militia and Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas fought for the fourth day near the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon and Tyre, with the casualty toll put at 40 dead and 80 wounded. A Syrian observer mediated a truce for the Sidon area, where PLO guerrillas had pushed aside Amal forces and captured five small villages. The accord did not cover the Tyre front, where Amal fighters tried to storm a refugee camp populated by 17,000 Palestinians. Leaders of the pro-Syrian Amal group have accused PLO leader Yasser Arafat of rebuilding his military forces in Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon after they were crushed in the Israeli invasion in 1982.
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