Druze guns mar cease-fire at town where foes talk
| Beirut
Druze Muslim gunners shelled Lebanese Army positions Wednesday in Khalde, where representatives of the nation's warring factions were meeting for the first time in the three-day-old truce, government sources said. The shelling was the worst outbreak of hostilities since a cease-fire Monday halted 22 days of all-out warfare between Syrian-backed Muslim militiamen and Lebanese Army troops around Beirut.
Druze militiamen also warned they would shell Beirut airport if the Lebanese government went ahead with plans to reopen it today.