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and come back in a coffin."

The war is becoming ever less popular, just as the uncertainty of its political and military gains make the politicians and the military command prepare for an even longer stay in Lebanon.

Both 'Israeli Labour" and "Peace now" accept the government's line that it will not withdraw without "assurances" that there will be no threat to Israel from the north. With no peace with the Palestinians, and no real government in Lebanon, that could mean de facto annexation of southern Lebanon as Israel's special "security zone"

So only the "Committee Against the War" has been seen on the streets in Israel IN El Salvador the military crisis which threatened to divide the ruling junta has been patched up.

Ultra-right wing Colonel Ochoa, who had point blank refused to relinquish his command in Cabanas province and take up a military attache position in far-off Uruguay, had won huge support amongst the most bloodthirsty sections of the Salvadorean officer corps.

The Air Force commander and the commander of the First Infantry Battalion had been among the hard. looks at 'Beirutis ation in Tel Aviv"

lately. ' A 2,000 strong demonstration in Tel Aviv's centre called for an immediate, unconditional Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and immediate release of all removal had been recognised as superficial "clean-up" operation designed to appease US public opinion and make it easier for Reagan to overcome the embarrassment of signing a declaration that progress is being made in El Salvador towards restoration of 'human rights"

Ochoa not only refused dramatised by the division of Beirut between the poorer, mostly Muslim, West, with its Palestinian refugee camps, and the richer, more Christian, East.

Divides

Another line divides Tel-Aviv, between its richer, mostly Europeanorigin north, and the poorer south, mostly inhabited by Jews from the Arab coun tries together with some Palestinians who stayed after the exodus of 1948.

This week this division was suddenly highlighted. A special force of police and municipal workers came to Kfar Shalem, a southern neighbourhood, to destroy an unauthorised extension in the brutal tactics of the Salvadorean army.

Meanwhile, seizing upon the confusion and disorientation of the military, the country's left wing FMIN guerrillas have pressed home a fresh wave of attacks on military targets. displayed a pistol and demanded they stop. A police officer shot him dead, and they completed their work of destruction. • No major riot ensued, but the intensity of the feeling against "the north" gave a shock to Israeli public opinion, used to the killing of Arabs. Some roads were blocked on the day of the shooting near Kfar Shalem.

The body itself, as in the case of West Bank demonstrators " who have been killed, was not given to the family, and they were forced to hold a quiet funeral at midnight to avoid agitation at a public

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liners backing Ochoa. His, Our reporter in Haifa