The World - News from June 4, 1989
Syrian gunners blasted Beirut’s Christian enclave with 400 howitzer shells while five artillery rounds crashed into Muslim West Beirut in the most serious violations so far of a three-week-old truce in Lebanon. No casualties were reported. A spokesman for Maj. Gen. Michel Aoun denied that his predominantly Christian army troops fired on West Beirut, but he warned: “We won’t remain idle if the cease-fire violations persist.”
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