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they saw Syrian gunners firing toward
Israeli positions, but it appeared the
Israelis were not firing back.
IN THE AIR war, Israeli planes
streaked over the Lebanese capital late
yesterday afternoon and made suc-
cessive bombing and rocketing runs on
a PLO command headquarters in the
Fakhanin neighborhood in southern
Beirut. Adjacent high-rise apartment
buildings housing several PLO offices
also came under attack.
There was no immediate word on the
extent of the damage or casualties.
Lebanese police said five Syrian
Soviet-made MiG fighters scrambled to
challenge the Israelis, and one of the
Syrian jets was shot down. The Israelis
later acknowledged downing a Syrian
jet.
UNCONFIRMED reports said Syrian
MiGs also clashed with Israeli war-
planes over Lebanon's Jakaa Valley,
near the Syrian border. A military
analyst said it appeared that the Israeli
strategists, by landing forces north of
Sidon and mounting a strong drive in
the eastern sector, wanted to create "a
pocket tht would block all PLO forces in
southern Lebanon."
Israeli political figures, in both
Begin's Likud bloc and the opposition
Labor Party, said that once Israel gains
firm control of southern Lebanon it
should demand that Syria withdraw its
troops from Lebanon in exchange for an
Israeli withdrawal.
Neither side issued an overall
casualty report. But the Israeli public
was being told of widespread and
bloody tighting, indicating their for-
ces were suffering their worst
-casualties since their last full-scale
Mideast war, in 1973.
Students to
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tending the workshop could be effective
as a "core," but added that "there will
definitely have to be a large outreach"
to involve community colleges and the
larger campuses like Michigan State
University, who did not send represen-
tatives to the meeting.
Possibly the biggest concern ex-
pressed by students was the difficulty
of mobilizing students during the sum-
mer when they are not concentrated on
campus.
"The only problem t see," said Mike
Legris, a representative of Cooley Law
School, "is that there are so many
students out of school now. I can see
how all the schools here will have
problems contacting students."
"Maybe it (the workshop) will set up
the base of something, but as far as
really moving, there is not a lot we can
do this summer," said Dearing.
I e Micigan Valy--I ues ay, Junel, I --
AN ISRAELI bomb appears to have scored a direct hit on a Beirut building housing PLO security forces yesterday. It
was the second air raid on Beirut since Friday.
Israel mtay ask Syrian pullout
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP)- The in-
vasion that started as a 25-mile push to
move Palestinian guns away from the
Israeli borner could turn into a political
drive to move the Syrian army out of
Lebanon.
It is not official Israeli policy but the
idea, popular in Israel, was batted
around in public yesterday as Israeli.
troops moved ahead with the invasion.
"We will have achieved our aims,"
said Member of Parliament Roni Milo
of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's
Likud bloc, "if any Israeli withdrawal
from territory will also be accompanied
by a parallel Syrian withdrawal from
Lebanese territory, and the liberation
of Lebanon from all foreigners."
MILO, WHO is Begin's son-in-law,
quickly returned to the official line as
he added: "But if we achieve the
removal of terrorists from firing range
into Israel, that will be an important
achievement."
Syria has had a strong troop presence
in Lebanon since 1976 when Damascus
sent in some 20,000 soldiers to quell the
Lebanese civil war. The Syrian troop
strength now is estimated at 30,000 and
Israel is uncomfortable facing Syrians
from any direction other than across
the Golan Heights, which it annexed.
The idea brewing in Israel is based on
two developments that could be con-
sidered likely if the Israel invasion is
successful and the Israeli and Syrian
armies do not become locked in combat
in Lebanon:
* The Israeli advance may carry
beyond the 25-mile limit that Israel
says it wants.
* In negotiations after the fighting,
Israel would refuse to pull back unless
the Syrians do the same.
SENIOR government sources told
reporters in Jerusalem that the
removal of Syrian forces from Lebanon
would not be a condition for Israel's
withdrawal.
U.S. presidential envoy Philip Habib
met with Begin to start working toward
an agreement on Israeli withdrawal of
troops.
The United States was "extremely
concerned" about the fighting in
Lebanon, according to Secretary of
State Alexander Haig.
AMONG THE questions Habib would
be looking into, Haig said, was whether
Israel had used U.S.-supplied weapons
in self-defense when it invaded Lebanon
on Sunday.
The United States supplied the
weapons on condition they not be used
offensively. Israel has in the past
claimed that attacks on the
Palestinians who shell Israel are in self-
defense.
Arab leaders unanimously condem-
ned Israel's invasion of Lebanon but
had not decided on a joint strategy
against the Israeli action.
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