Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost control of West Beirut to the Shi'ite and Druze militias in a vicious battle the week before, and the rout south of the city left his government controlling little more than Christian East Beirut. The Muslims were expected to make their next major thrust at Suq al Gharb in the mountains east of Beirut, where the Lebanese Army held a strategic position overlooking the presidential palace at Baabda, just outside the capital. Fighting did break out around Suq al Gharb and along the "green line" separating West and East Beirut, but at week...
Gemayel made no public announcement that he was scrapping the accord. He simply accepted an eight-point Saudi Arabian peace plan that includes abrogation of the May 17 pact; Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal then delivered it to the Syrians. Other points called for a ceasefire, a negotiated simultaneous pullout of Israeli and Syrian forces coupled with security guarantees to Israel, and a reconstitution of Gemayel's Christian-dominated government to give a much greater share of power to his Muslim opponents...
...beleaguered President could not even claim that distinction after the takeover of West Beirut and the disintegration of the Lebanese Army. With shells crashing into the nearby "hillside and occasionally hitting his palace, Gemayel desperately tried to cobble together a new government following the resignation of Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan and his nine-member Cabinet...
...should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced. . . Yet even as the '50s and '60s went by, and more Americans shared my concern, Government grew like Topsy. In the '70s, federal spending tripled, taxes doubled and the national debt reached al most a trillion dollars...
...speed skating. ABC compressed Finnish Gold Medalist Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen's 10-km cross-country ski race into a montage of snow-hazed spurts of ardent labor that made her final collapse seem an inevitable part of the effort. Hockey Commentator Al Michaels could probably inject excitement into a pinochle game, although he shared in ABC's unrealistic buildup of the young, inexperienced U.S. team. As a taped image showed U.S. Downhill Skier Bill Johnson during a pell-mell training run, he explained each turn of the course and keyed viewers...