The World - News from April 7, 1989
Syrian and Christian gunners dueled with mortars and rockets across Beirut, shattering a short-lived cease-fire and forcing panicked civilians back to basements and bunkers. Police said 15 people were wounded. Officers said Syrian gunners fired 50 rocket and mortar rounds against the Christian enclave east and northwest of Beirut, about 11 hours after the cease-fire was called. Maj. Gen. Michel Aoun’s Christian army said that its troops were holding their fire. But a police spokesman said a dozen mortar rounds from Christian East Beirut slammed into Muslim West Beirut and that a rocket hit a Greek Orthodox church.
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