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DATE: TUESDAY, September 14, 1993                   TAG: 9309140074
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: DAMASCUS, SYRIA                                LENGTH: Short

PALESTINIANS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST PACT

Palestinian refugees living in countries neighboring Israel demonstrated against the peace accord Monday, and in Lebanon security forces fired on protesters, killing seven and wounding 41.

About 500 supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah marched in Beirut's southern suburb of Ghobeir in defiance of a government ban on demonstrations. They came under fire when they refused to disperse.

In rallies in Jordan and Syria, Palestinians tore up pictures of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, burned Israeli flags, marched angrily through the streets and promised to wreck the PLO-Israeli peace.

But although the protests were strident, only a fraction of the region's hundreds of thousands of refugees participated. And elsewhere there were scenes of joy as Palestinians watched on television as Arafat shook the hand of the Israeli prime minister on the White House lawn. - Associated Press 


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