1.  The first Syrian forces arrive in Saudi Arabia.

2.  Syrian forces immediately began dismantling the Green Line separating Moslem west and Christian east Beirut.

3.  The assassination of the Chamoun family raised questions about the ability, or the readiness, of the Syrian forces to impose law and order in the East.

4.  Sources said that this decision was taken after an agreement between Hezbollah and Amal guerrillas, the Lebanese army, and Syrian forces.

5.  As a result, Syrian forces and their allies have been pounding the Christian half of Beirut with artillery for several weeks.

6.  But by retaliating so far from the border, Israel risks a broader conflict involving Syrian forces as well.

7.  He is the chief of military intelligence, not commander of the Syrian forces in Lebanon.

8.  Israel counterattacked, driving back Syrian forces and crossing the Suez Canal into Egypt.

9.  Most alarming has been a shift of elite Syrian forces in Lebanon to positions that threaten an Israeli outpost on Mount Hermon, the strategic peak southwest of Damascus.

10.  Particular surprise greeted Walid Jumblatt, a Druze warlord whose militia fought the Maronites during the civil war, when he demanded the redeployment of Syrian forces.