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Wearing blue helmets and carrying rifles, the first wave of Italian commandos stepped from the gray helicopter that landed in a cloud of stinging sand, adding to the growing number of international peacekeepers in south Lebanon. Some 880 Italians arrived over the weekend to join 2,220 soldiers already here to ensure the three-week-old cease-fire between Lebanese Hizbullah guerrillas and Israel will hold. Full Story