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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 25, 1990                   TAG: 9007250044
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BEIRUT, LEBANON                                LENGTH: Short

14 KILLED IN LATEST SHIITE DRIVE

Hundreds of Shiite Moslem fighters from the Amal movement have mounted a new offensive to wrest control of a stategic town in southern Lebanon from their Shiite foes in the pro-Iranian Party of God.

The police on Tuesday said 14 people were killed and 35 wounded. Security officials said fires were burning out of control in the wooded district of Iqlim al Toffah a few miles southeast of Sidon as artillery shells and rockets were raining down at the rate of 20 a minute.

A spokesman for Amal said its fighters mounted a three-prong attack at daybreak Tuesday to recapture the hilltop town of Jarjuh from Party of God militants.

It was Amal's second offensive for control of the town in four days. An offensive on Friday was repulsed by the Party of God, which had rushed reinforcements to the scene. - The New York Times 


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