The World - News from April 18, 1989
Residents of Beirut sought shelter in basements and bunkers during citywide shelling as five weeks of relentless battles touched off international appeals for a cease-fire. The rocket and artillery barrages slammed into the Christian and Muslim sectors during intensified fighting around the Lebanese capital between Christian army units and an alliance of Druze militia members and Syrian troops. Meanwhile, the United States, Kuwait, Jordan and Pope John Paul II appealed for a truce in what has become one of the bloodiest rounds of the 14-year civil war.
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