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<text id=91TT1545>
<title>
July 15, 1991: World Notes:Lebanon
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 45
World Notes
LEBANON
Tough Times For the P.L.O.
</hdr><body>
<p> Things are going from bad to worse for the Palestine
Liberation Organization. Just as it struggles to recover the
credibility it lost by supporting Saddam Hussein, the organization
has suffered a serious military setback in Lebanon. After its
5,000 fighters near the port city of Sidon were pummeled by the
newly assertive Lebanese Army last week, the P.L.O. agreed to stop
using Lebanon as a military staging area. The group has now lost
its only base within striking distance of Israel.
</p>
<p> Until last week's fighting, the Palestinians had refused
to follow the lead of most of Lebanon's armed groups and bow to
the government's authority. In ejecting them, however,
President Elias Hrawi was also aiming to compel Israel to
withdraw from the security zone it set up in southern Lebanon
in 1985 to shield against guerrilla attacks. The Israeli Defense
Ministry said its forces would stay put.
</p>
</body></article>
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