The World - News from May 1, 1986
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Lebanese army units battled pro-Syrian Muslim militias near President Amin Gemayel’s stronghold at Bikfaya in the mountains northeast of Beirut. Military sources reported one soldier killed and several wounded. Each side blamed the other for starting the clash, which followed an appeal by the pro-Syrian Druze Progressive Socialist Party “for an end to the war in all its forms.” Lebanon has been torn by 11 years of conflict.
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