BEIRUT (AP) Palestinian fighters stopped a tank-led onslaughtby Shiite Moslem militiamen at a Beirut refugee camp yesterday andalso claimed to have overcome the last Shiite resistance at a hilltoptown in south Lebanon.
Police said 105 people were killed and more than 269 wounded inthe two battles between the Palestine Liberation Organization and theShiite Amal militia, which is trying to keep the PLO from rebuildinga power base in Lebanon.
At least 45 people were killed and 169 injured at the Chatillarefugee camp in Moslem west Beirut, and 60 were killed and more than100 wounded in the southern town of Magdouche, police said.
It was the heaviest one-day toll since PLO guerrillas stormedout of Sidon a week ago to wrest Magdouche's bluffs from Amal.
In west Beirut, Shiites closed in on Chatilla behind tank fireSaturday, apparently determined to overrun the shantytown where14,000 refugees live. But PLO guerrillas hurled grenades at the tanks until the onslaughtwas halted at daybreak, police said.
In Magdouche, the PLO said it re-established "uncontestedcontrol" and quashed the last pockets of Amal resistance. Butreporters who entered Magdouche yesterday said Amal militiamen stillwere fighting in the eastern sector.
In Tunisia, the PLO asked the Arab League to call a meeting todiscuss the fighting.
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