The World - News from Oct. 26, 1988

Ten Syrian soldiers were injured as a powerful car bomb exploded next to a troop bus in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, police said. The blast was apparently one in a series of attacks aimed at undermining Syria’s security role in Lebanon, where 30,000 of its troops control more than half the territory. The police said 110 pounds of explosives, packed into a Mercedes-Benz parked on the Beirut-Damascus highway, blew up as the troops drove by. Hard-line Christian groups fiercely oppose Syria’s role as the main foreign power broker in Lebanon.