The State Department said that it will study a news report that the number of Palestine Liberation Army troops in Lebanon total up to 20,000 men, many of them disguised Syrian soldiers. However, Department sources indicated to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that they doubted the Department would discuss officially the number of PLA troops in Lebanon. The State Department has estimated that about 2000 PLA troops entered Lebanon from Syria last month in support of the Moslem-Palestine Liberation Organization’s side in Lebanon’s civil strife.
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