Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neatly spaced amid the welter of bulldozers, cranes and sweating U.S. marines on Yellow Beach north of Beirut, Lebanon last week stood five green and white umbrellas boldly emblazoned SEVEN-UP. The umbrellas each sheltered a friendly Lebanese vendor with an iced soft-drink box packed with Seven-Up. They were spaced with such orderly precision because the marines' beachmaster decided in his second week ashore that the hordes of Lebanese pop salesmen needed as much organization as the unloading of supplies into that precise point of the crisis-torn Middle East...
Under gnarled old trees in a quiet olive grove on the inland side of Beirut's strategic International Airport, officers of the U.S. Army's 187th Airborne Battle Group were working on a battle plan. They were ready, if called upon, to roll up the Basta, a Moslem area of Beirut held by Nasserite rebels, sealed by deep tank traps, banked with sandbags, defended by carefully sited automatic weapons. But there were immediate problems in the olive grove. Inevitably, the trucks and heavy combat vehicles of the 187th were barging into some of the olive trees causing damage...
...Admiral Holloway's power: 6,100 marines and 3,100 Army airborne troops, installed on a secure beachhead equipped to shoot anything from obsolete Mi rifles to atomic-rocket projectiles; the 76-ship, 35,000-man Sixth Fleet offshore, whose Skyraiders could take an A-bomb from Beirut to Moscow; the Air Force Tactical Air Command's 200-plane composite task force-Douglas B66 and Martin 6-57 light jet bombers. North American F-iooD fighter-bombers and McDonnell F-IOI fighters-at nearby Adana, Turkey, an atomic-and conventional-armed reminder of the mighty, miles-away...
...visiting Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy, U.S. Ambassador McClintock, Lebanon's President Chamoun, Army Chief Shehab-to keep in close touch and in close tune with the intricate local negotiations. Holloway also has to keep in tune with what passes in Lebanon for public opinion. "The people of Beirut," he says, "are largely in favor of our being here, and they are becoming more cordial daily. Surely some of them are not, and they could make trouble, but the threat of trouble is receding...
Lanky, affable Career Diplomat Robert Murphy is an old hand at applying diplomacy in the shadow of military force. An ace troubleshooter in France and North Africa during World War II, and later in the Trieste, Korea and Suez crises, Murphy last week moved unobtrusively about Beirut on his assignment as President Eisenhower's personal representative for negotiating a speedy political compromise among the little country's warring factions...