The World - News from June 12, 1986

Iranian officials escorted 10 Palestinians, including women and children, from the ravaged Borj el Brajne refugee camp in Beirut during a brief truce in fighting between Shia Amal militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas. Other wounded Palestinians, fearing they would be attacked after they left, declined to be evacuated. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Besharati is in Beirut in an effort to mediate an end to the warfare. Iran intervened after officials from Syria, an Iranian ally and the main power broker in Syria, had been unable to arrange a lasting truce.