World IN BRIEF : LEBANON : 8 More Killed as Christians Battle
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From Times staff and Wire reports
Rival Christian forces battled in Beirut’s rain-drenched alleys and the mountains northeast of the capital while civilians dodged bullets to reach the Muslim sector to buy goods for their trapped families. Troops of renegade Maj. Gen. Michel Aoun and the rival Lebanese Forces militia of Samir Geagea ignored two calls for a cease-fire in their battle for control of the Christian enclave north of Beirut. Police said at least eight people were killed and 17 wounded.
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