Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forces to face our common destiny." He appealed to Syrian President Hafez Assad to stop the fighting and to other countries to help avert a possible "massacre" of his followers. For weeks there had been rumors that Assad was determined to bring down Arafat before the next Arab summit conference, which is due to convene Nov. 25 in Riyadh...
...away from Beirut by helicopter, but the help was turned down. U.S. military officials decided, correctly as it turned out, that their own facilities, including medical evacuation planes, were sufficient. Washington may also have felt that acceptance of Israeli aid, if it was not crucial, would needlessly anger the Arab world. The U.S. Marines did accept body bags from the Israelis...
...stakes of U.S. involvement in the multinational peace force are viewed as far greater than the professed goal of facilitating the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli forces. American presence has made possible the survival of the government there, at least for the moment, and helped fend off another Arab-Israeli war. In that region too, Reagan argued...
...West Bank. In time, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians moved to Lebanon, eventually upsetting the country's fragile political balance between Muslims and Christians. When Lebanon erupted into civil war in 1975, Syrian President Hafez Assad sent in troops. But what began as the backbone of an Arab peace-keeping force eventually became a permanent occupation. After Menachem Begin became...
...knew I was coming here." Tinny-sounding melodies of various sorts drift out of the compound's tents and fortified holes in the ground all day long. "I was listening to my radio," explained one grunt in his bunker at Post One, "until I got tired of the Arab music." His own tape player was broken. "I was going to put me on some Deep Purple, but I got ketchup on the batteries." Each Marine is permitted one can of beer a day. Many of them have read more during their months in Lebanon than ever before...