The World - News from Aug. 22, 1989

An unusual buildup of Israeli troops and allied militiamen in southern Lebanon prompted U.N. peacekeeping forces to go on alert, Lebanese security sources said. They said a joint convoy of 35 armored personnel carriers and trucks was spotted moving about 15 miles east of Tyre, in the central sector of Israel’s self-proclaimed security zone. In the eastern sector, a force of 50 Israeli troops with seven tanks, three personnel carriers and four trucks entered the village of Kawkaba, in the area of the U.N.’s Norwegian contingent, the sources said. The reported buildup came a day after a bomb injured at least two militiamen in the buffer zone along the border with Israel.