Word: annexation
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...bombing of the American embassy annex in East Beirut became a campaign issue, the swirl of political rhetoric threatened to obscure the hard particulars of just what happened and why. Yet the inquiries into the attack have more than a whipped-up partisan urgency: last week a telephone caller, saying he represented the same fanatic Muslim group that claimed responsibility for the embassy bombing, told a leftist Lebanese newspaper that another "big operation will be carried out against American interests soon...
...prior experience that a car bomb was the most likely weapon. In addition, he said, some of the security measures recommended by the Long Commission, established in the wake of the Marine barracks bombing to study ways of preventing future attacks, had not been carried out at the Beirut annex. Charged Mondale: "Based on what we have learned over the past 24 hours, the Reagan Administration failed to respond properly to all of these warnings...
...last Thursday, a van with diplomatic license plates pulled up at a checkpoint outside the embassy annex, a building in East Beirut that in the past few months had become the headquarters of Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew and his staff. The car was ordered to halt by the Lebanese security guards on duty at the checkpoint. Suddenly the driver pulled a gun and shot at one of the guards. Then, as another guard shouted and ran after the van, the driver raced his engine, zigzagged through the "dragon's teeth," a staggered row of concrete blocks designed to reduce...
...problem has been particularly acute in Lebanon. After last year's bombing of the embassy in West Beirut, U.S. diplomats began working out of the British embassy. But in late July they moved their offices to the new "annex" in East Beirut, partly because much of the government of President Amin Gemayel was located in that half of the city, but mainly because East Beirut was considered safer than West Beirut. The annex building was thought to be especially secure because it was located in Aukar, a suburb on the outskirts of the city. The move coincided with...
...same morning that an explosion shattered the U.S. embassy annex on the outskirts of East Beirut, another act of terror was being carried out 29 miles away in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon. In the small Shi'ite Muslim village of Suh-mur, 13 people were murdered by militiamen of the Christian-dominated Army of Southern Lebanon, apparently in retaliation for the earlier killing of four of its soldiers...