Word: beirut
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...different greetings. One card portrays a pig-faced white Santa emerging from a chimney to confront a less-than-loving reception committee: a black father toting a carbine and his little boy preparing to bash St. Nick with a small Christmas tree. The trend is not only American. In Beirut the anti-Israel terrorists of Al-Fatah are selling cards with a drawing of innocent-looking Arab youths, one of them carrying a submachine gun. Al-Fatah hopes to collect more than $100,000 from its card sales, most of which will be used for arms purchases...
...intervention of Gamal Abdel Nasser, not the warnings of the U.S. and the Soviet Union, not the menace of an uneasy Israel. From Tripoli south to Sidon, from dusty villages on the edge of the Mount Hermon massif in the east to the fashionable sea front of Beirut in the west, violence continued as Arab fought Arab. In Tripoli alone, at least 18 were dead...
Customary Insouciance. There was still scattered terrorism in spite of the maneuvering in Cairo. Near Sidon, an oil-storage tank belonging to the TransArabian Pipe Line Co., a U.S. oil subsidiary, was spectacularly set ablaze. In Beirut, dynamite charges exploded harmlessly outside the Phoenicia Hotel and on Hamra, the principal shopping street. But in cities and refugee camps, riots and sniper attacks seemed to be abating, and discussions between Helou and Lebanese Moslem leaders replaced the angry recriminations of the week before...
...events produced internal and external crises for Lebanon. Karami resigned as caretaker Premier. Arab leaders called a general strike, and some of the 160,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon fought pitched battles with police in Beirut. In Tripoli, Lebanon's second city, street battles killed seven and injured scores. Helou was forced to declare a nationwide curfew to prevent further disorders...
Border Troubles. Helou also telephoned Syria's head of state, Noureddine Atassi, to protest Damascus' support of the guerrilla raids. Atassi had closed the Syrian-Lebanese border, stranding more than 500 trucks along the 68-mile Beirut-Damascus highway, one of the Middle East's busiest trade routes. Ignoring Helou's protests, Syria -or the fedayeen-moved riflemen, armored cars and mortars to the Lebanese frontier. At week's end some troops were reported to have crossed the border and occupied a village four miles inside Lebanon. The Syrians have traditionally been better at rattling...