European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Palestinians hold out against shiite attacks May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 Beirut a palestinian guerrillas trapped in refugee Camps held off shiite moslem militiamen thursday for the fourth Day of fierce House House fighting in the body strewn streets around their Strong but the encircled by shiite amal fighters and shiite soldiers of the lebanese army 6th appeared to be under increasing police said 33 people were killed and 193 were wounded on the fourth Day of the Camps that raised the toll in fight ing since sunday to at least 188 killed and about but officials on both sides and the red Cross said dozens of uncounted bodies still Are lying in the a palestinian spokesman said there pulverizing the House by with heavy artillery and tank dozens of bodies Are lying on the they wont let the red Cross in East thousands of christians gathered at the Virgin Mary maronite Church for a funeral mass for 37 women and children killed when a car packed with an estimated 440 pounds of explosives blew up Church Bells tolled at five minute inter Vals during the Day and radios played somber classical All businesses and schools closed As the christians police initially reported 60 killed and wounded in the bombing in a Street in the sin elfin which was jammed with rus hour but police said later they recovered Only 37 and that 21 peo ple were still missing and believed searchers continued to sift through the mangled wreckage of 50 burned cars and the rubble of wrecked apartment palestinian gunners East of Beirut unleashed a massive barrage of soviet made Katusha and Grad rockets for a second Day in an Effort to take the heat off the who have vowed to fight to the last salvos of rockets crashed into shiite pop plated areas in Southern but there was no immediate word on the extent of casualties or at one an average of 15 rockets a minute were crashing into residential a photos Rescue workers sort through the rubble in Beirut sin elfin where a car bomb killed 37 people police said 21 people Are missing and feared t a shiite militiaman opens fire with a rocket propelled grenade left and another guards a captured palestinian during fierce House House fighting in Beirut refugee
