The World - News from Jan. 17, 1989
Rival Shiite Muslim militias vowed revenge as they buried victims of their fighting in south Lebanon. “We shall take revenge! It shall be merciless!” chanted 1,500 zealots of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah during a funeral procession in Beirut for four fighters killed in southern Lebanon. In the southern port of Tyre, 7,000 mourners of the Syrian-backed Amal militia staged a funeral for three victims. “Death to Khomeini!” they chanted, a reference to Iran’s leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In Beirut, meanwhile, new street battles between Amal and Hezbollah left two people dead and five wounded.
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