Fragile calm
[NZPA-Reuter Beirut I A fragile calm has settled: : over south Lebanon after the [declaration by Right-wing j [ militias of a secessionist [“Free Lebanon” enclave and i heavy Rightist shelling of t United Nations headquarters ; there. < Travellers from the troubled area said there 1 were no serious incidents at the week-end. But the Rightists under I the renegade Army major, j Saad Haddad, were still j blocking the coastal road i leading south to United ; Nations headquarters at Na- i qoura on the Lebanon-Israel 1
iborder, isolating the complex • from the rest of Lebanon. Major Haddad declared his independent “Free Lebanon” on Wednesday in a sliver of land along the Israeli border. Israel has given crucial support to Major Haddad’s militiamen since handing the area over to them a year l ago after the March, 1975, Israeli invasion of south Lebanon. Major Haddad made his proclamation in response to the deployment of 500 Lebanese Army sent in to comply with United Nations Security Council calls for the re-establishment of a Government presence in south Lebanon.
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Press, 23 April 1979, Page 8
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176Fragile calm Press, 23 April 1979, Page 8
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