Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Beirut, Jim Bell reports that he made 37 separate flights (17,525 miles) covering Middle East news in 1953, and ends his cable: "When I vacationed this year, I went to Italy by boat, repeat boat." The New Delhi bureau racked up 20,825 miles, cables Correspondent Joe David Brown, who recalls that his most memorable flight was from Srinagar, Kashmir to New Delhi in an old Dakota which was "not equipped to fly over the lofty Himalayan foothills." The course: "Dodging in between the all-too-solid looking peaks, a process which made nervous passengers think...
...past 14 months Dave Richardson has been a TIME correspondent in the Middle East, with headquarters in Beirut. Having spent only five weeks of the past six years in the U.S., he is looking forward to a Quiet Year Of academic life. He is back on a leave of absence to accept one of the fellowships for American foreign correspond ents granted by the Council on Foreign Relations...
Richardson, with his wife and two daughters (Hilary, 4, born in Frankfurt, and Julia, 2, born in London), made the return trip to the U.S. last month by ship, "because we felt the children should get some sense of transition from country to country." The move from London to Beirut, Richardson explained, "was about an eight-hour plane ride. For nearly a year afterward, Hilary thought we were still in England, and kept asking when we were going to take the bus back to London...
...grey, brooding Lebanese mountains of Akkar, the ancient Abboud family owns the good land. The Abbouds say who shall represent Akkar in the Chamber of Deputies in Beirut, and their men are duly elected. The power of the Abbouds is such, say the peasants in the villages, that their henchmen have been known to test new rifles with peasants for targets. But four years ago, Mohammed el Abboud, the chieftain's only son, dared to challenge a Lebanese as powerful as himself: Hussein el Oweini, one of the new republic's richest men and a friend...
Respect & Death. Even by Middle East standards, the campaign was rough. In the capital city of Beirut, ten people were wounded by a bomb. In Akkar, Mohammed's convoy was ambushed, and two men were shot. In alarm, President Camille Chamoun summoned the north Lebanon candidates to his mansion, to warn them that such violence must not take place on election...