WORLD IN BRIEF : LEBANON : Aoun Radio Station Shelled Off the Air
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Right-wing gunners of Samir Geagea’s Lebanese Forces militia knocked rebel Maj. Gen. Michel Aoun’s television station off the air in renewed fighting. Aoun’s command said the antenna at his station in the mountain town of Beit Meri took direct hits in the artillery bombardment by Geagea’s forces. Meanwhile, 20 Maronite Catholic bishops met with Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir, then issued an appeal for a cease-fire in the power struggle between the two Christian rivals.
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