The World : PLO Seizes Lebanon Camp

Yasser Arafat’s Fatah guerrillas have taken control of Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp after two days of violence that left five people dead, police said. The military commander of Fatah--the dominant faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization--and two of his bodyguards, a Fatah guerrilla and a Palestinian passer-by were killed at the Ein el Hilwa camp near the southern port city of Sidon. Police said that guerrillas of Abu Nidal’s rival Revolutionary Council of Fatah on Friday opened fire on the Fatah guerrilla, Haitham Diab, when he failed to stop at one of their checkpoints in the camp, home to 60,000 Palestinian refugees. That touched off a shoot-out between the rival groups in which the passer-by was killed, police said. Later, gunmen ambushed a convoy led by Farid Hourani, the Fatah commander.