From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: Israel attacks Lebanon.

BEIRUT -- Israeli ground and air forces attacked Lebanon in two places today [June 21] and killed 48 persons, reports from the Government and the Palestinian guerrillas said. The Government said 14 civilians were killed and 25 wounded in Hasbaya, a farming village... . ... In Tel Aviv, a military spokesman announced that Israeli troops crossed the border into the Lebanon and captured five high-ranking Syrian officers, a Lebanese soldier and a number of Lebanese policemen. - News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies in Srinagar,] Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the former Prime Minister of Kashmir, who returned to his...

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