Word: baalbek
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...Fakhani neighborhood south of the center of the city, and P.L.O. positions near the Burj el Barajneh refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut's paralyzed international airport. Some 20 to 30 miles to the east, Israeli air force planes bombed Syrian and Palestinian positions at Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, as well as Syrian armored positions in the center of the valley. On Saturday, Israel lost its second warplane of the conflict, when a Phantom F-4 jet was hit by a Syrian SA-8 missile over Bekaa. It was the first time that the antiaircraft missile...
...radar, they watched it head toward Lebanon. The plane flew so low that it eluded Beirut radar, but Lebanese police started an immediate countrywide search. Within minutes, a police patrol found the Martin 202 parked alongside a large truck on a remote airstrip in the hashish-growing area of Baalbek, near the Syrian border. As police and truck guards fought a gun battle, the plane took off amid a hail of bullets...
Series of Horrors. Often the youthful smugglers are suckers from the start. In Lebanon, tourist guides around Baalbek's famous Roman ruins sidle up to adventurous-looking American kids and sell them not only cheap hash but identical cheap cardboard tourist suitcases to carry it in. Airport customs officials are so familiar with the suitcases that they almost yawn as they arrest the tourists who show up with them...
...French shipyard and valuable real estate on Paris' Champs Elysees-and try to recoup the bank's crippling losses with their future profits. As a $1,000,000-plus financial consultant, Kidder, Peabody hopes to raise $30 million to develop these and other Intra-owned properties like Baalbek Studios, which is building motion picture sound stages in low-cost Lebanon with the expectation of luring movie makers from Italy, where production costs have been steadily rising...
Eternal Shrine. Today, with an annual income of $130,000, Um Kalthoum is the wealthiest woman in the Middle East. For her two performances at Baalbek, she pocketed $28,000, or four times the yearly salary of Nasser. She lives in a villa on Cairo's Zamalik Island with her doctor husband, a prosperous venereal disease specialist. There are no signs that the "Star of the East" is fading. The Arabs think that with age her voice has become mellower, richer, more touching. As her followers in Egypt like to say: In the Middle East only two things never...