Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan's success is far from certain, of course. General Michel Aoun, commander of the Christian forces fighting Syria and its Lebanese Muslim allies, warned in East Beirut that "the war of liberation will continue" until the Syrians are driven out. Muslim warlords also dismissed the Taif meeting and called for Aoun's ouster...
Your name has often been linked in the press to the bombing of the American Marines in Beirut. Were you involved in that...
...assure you that I did not know about the bombing of the American Marines in Beirut until after it happened. But I did talk about it, since it represented an aspect of the opposition to American policy in the region. There is a difference between approving of some of the political effects and actually participating. I told journalists after the bombing that the press had relied on information coming from the ((Christian)) Phalangists. I challenged them to produce any proof linking...
Sixty-two members of Lebanon's parliament convened last week in Saudi Arabia, meeting outside the country to avoid being intimidated by Syrian troops, who have occupied Beirut for the past three years. The session's goal: to enact political reforms called for in an Arab League peace plan that produced a cease-fire two weeks ago in the six-month-old civil war pitting Lebanon's Christians against the Syrians and their Muslim allies. The meeting will continue, said one member, "however long that takes...
Despite occasional gunfire, the truce held last week, allowing a semblance of normality to return to Beirut. Its residents have watched cease-fires come and go, but one promising tip-off suggests this one will last for a while. The price of plate glass for replacing the thousands of windowpanes shattered by gunfire and artillery barrages quadrupled within hours...