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...paper was ridiculed for some erratic early editing decisions: the first issue reported the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel on page 9, and another early issue headlined the "news" MEN, WOMEN: WE'RE STILL DIFFERENT. But USA Today has steadily become more conventionally informative. The 375 editorial staffers, headquartered in an office tower in Rosslyn, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, assemble hundreds of items per issue, only a handful of them more than 500 words long. Yet the consumer-oriented daily "Money" section solidly covers business and economics, and the editorial page imaginatively devotes its space...
...multinational peace-keeping force that would act as a sort of police guard for the departing guerrillas as well as for the Palestinian civilians left behind in refugee camps. But the U.S. pulled out its troops after only two weeks. A traumatic series of events immediately followed: President-elect Bashir Gemayel was assassinated, Israeli forces occupied Muslim West Beirut, and vengeful Christian militiamen murdered some 700 Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila camps. The U.S. brought the Marines back to help restore order...
Shiffer also underscores Sharon's frequent and close meetings with Bashir Gemayel, the Christian Maronite warlord who was assassinated only nine days before his scheduled inauguration as Lebanese President in September 1982. In Shiffer's account, Bashir asks Sharon if Israel would object to the Lebanese sending in bulldozers to flatten "the built-up areas," four weeks before the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut. Sharon's reply: "This is not our business...
Lebanon has a history of its own, an identity of its own and a destiny of its own. Our national heroes, such as Fakhr-al-Din II and Bashir the Great, ruled Lebanon from the 16th to the 19th century independent of Turkey. They made Lebanon a haven for persecuted minorities and flung open the doors to allow free cultural and economic relations with the West. The failure of the world to grasp this reality has harmed Lebanon...
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...