The World - News from June 22, 1989

Israeli jets bombed a Palestinian radical stronghold south of Beirut in Israeli’s third air strike on guerrillas in Lebanon in a week. An official for the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General-Command said the jets struck the group’s headquarters and two military positions in hills about 10 miles south of the Lebanese capital. Police said one guerrilla was killed and eight were wounded. An Israeli army spokesman said the positions “were used as command posts for the terrorist organization of (Popular Front leader) Ahmed Jibril.” The front, a dissident group that split from the Palestine Liberation Organization, has denounced the PLO’s recent softer tone toward Israel.