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but shortly before eleven at night the confirmation came: the

the reports from Beirut suggested that Gemayel had

nine days before his scheduled inauguration

it was their concern about “several thousand” Palestinian

predicting how Arik’s ostensibly more limited

” I told Uri and Yossi. They had been in charge of the

and Amram went with them to co-ordinate the operation. But

but the commander of our artillery force called in all available

but an important way-station: Syrian headquarters on the

and the most serious air losses for an Arab state since 1967

the Syrians sent up their Soviet-made MiGs to

nearly 100 Israeli jets swarmed into the Bekaa Valley

all that remained was for him to tell the cabinet that

a clash with Syrian forces would happen at some

and for hours found themselves in a fierce

to the north of Jezzin and beyond the 40-kilometer line

we did avoid a confrontation with the Syrians.

came down from the Golan and started making its way up alongside

below the first Syrian positions at the bottom of the Bekaa. But

000 troops and 600 tanks and were responsible for the “eastern