Word: bashir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarkable eyewitness account and exclusive photographs in this week's World story on the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel and the massacre that followed were the result of the almost routine serendipity that seems to be the hallmark of good journalists. As the bomb that was to kill Gemayel was edging toward detonation, TIME Correspondent David Halevy was at the reception desk of the Hotel Alexandre in East Beirut checking out. TIME Staff Photographer Rudi Frey was at the hotel bar having a beer. David Rubinger, another veteran TIME photographer, was upstairs packing. The three were...
First, an assassin's bomb killed Lebanon's President-elect Bashir Gemayel only days before he was to have taken office. Israeli tanks thereupon rolled into West Beirut, presumably to keep the fratricidal factions in the long-suffering nation from one another's throats. And then, with the Israelis supposedly in control, a ghastly massacre took place. A still undetermined number of Palestinian refugees, most of them unarmed civilians, including women and children, were found shot to death in two camps in Beirut at week's end. Survivors claimed that the Christian militia, long allied with...
That was the Israeli government's explanation for its decision to send its armed forces into Muslim-dominated West Beirut last week following the assassination of Lebanon's President-elect Bashir Gemayel. The Israeli action alarmed the U.S., which saw it as a violation of a promise the Israelis made this summer to U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib while he was negotiating the withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from West Beirut. It frightened the Lebanese capital's Muslim population, infuriated the governments of other Arab states, and led to a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on the Israelis...
...head, shoulder and arm of a person who had been blown apart. Sirens screaming, the cars of Gemayel's Lebanese Forces began screeching to a halt in front of the building. Suddenly a Phalangist official struck himself on the face in dismay and frustration and shouted: "Bashir is inside...
...possible candidates were mentioned. One was Camille Chamoun, 82, who served as President from 1952 to 1958 and in the end had to seek the help of the U.S. Marines to keep the country from disintegrating. Another was Raymond Eddé, 69, a former presidential aspirant living in Paris. But Bashir's brother Amin has become the front runner simply by announcing his candidacy...