1.   Peres, an architect of Mideast peace, has risked future talks by launching raids on the southern slums of Beirut and Lebanese villages that harbor the guerrillas.

2.   An Israeli warship with helicopters aboard cruised the Mediterranean Sea off Beirut, whose southern slums have been the target of six Israeli air attacks in recent days.

3.   Both are contagious and spread easily at close quarters, especially in the cramped living conditions of southern slums, including those in Port-au-Prince.

4.   Flooding blocked main roads into Port-au-Prince, and some makeshift houses were washed off hillsides in the southern slums of the capital.

5.   Flooding blocked main roads into the capital, and some makeshift houses were washed off hillsides in the southern slums of the capital.

6.   Lebanese army soldiers unleashed anti-aircraft fire as the helicopters dropped rockets on the southern slums.

7.   Targets included Hezbollah strongholds in southern slums and two power substations that feed the Lebanese capital with electricity, forcing severe rationing.

8.   Targets included Hezbollah strongholds in southern slums and two power substations.

9.   There was no immediate word on the extent of the damage, and Hezbollah gunmen blocked reporters from entering the raided southern slums.

10.   Israeli helicopters also fired rockets at the southern Shiite Moslem slums near Beirut airport, a Hezbollah stronghold.