Word: beirutization
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...June Hussein and Arafat asked that a summit be convened, mainly to bring a halt to attacks on Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut by Syrian-backed Shi'ite Muslim Amal militiamen. Moreover, the two leaders saw an opportunity to win broader Arab support for their initiative...
...disturbing series of events began last week when an anonymous telephone caller claimed that Americans held hostage by the extremist Islamic Jihad in Lebanon would be executed. The next day a bundle of letters was delivered to the Associated Press office in Beirut. One was addressed to President Reagan and signed by four of the six missing Americans. That seemed to confirm that the four--A.P. Correspondent Terry Anderson; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, a Catholic priest; Agriculturist Thomas Sutherland; and David Jacobsen, director of the American University hospital in Beirut--were still alive. Two others, Diplomat William Buckley and Librarian...
...between Israel and Jordan. That news came as Jordan extended an olive branch to Syria, thus perhaps paving the way for a Syrian role in Hussein's peace brokering. While the Israeli crisis was in full cry, Terry Waite, an adviser to Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, flew to Beirut to try to negotiate the release of four American hostages...
While the debate was going on, a new Syrian-backed security proposal was going into effect in Lebanon, initially with promising results. Some 200 red-bereted policemen, backed by 400 Lebanese soldiers and Syrian observers, took over security in Muslim West Beirut and at Beirut International Airport. For the first time in several weeks, militiamen all but disappeared from the city's streets, and the offices of the various Muslim militia groups were shut down. The changed situation prompted the feuding Christian militias on the other side of Beirut's "green line" to reunite their fighting forces. The Syrians...
...that terrorists were increasingly active, in part, because news attention encouraged them. The P.M. told the lawyers, to repeated applause, that reporters should voluntarily refrain from coverage that could boost terrorists' morale. In an obvious reference to last month's televised news conferences and interviews with American hostages in Beirut, Thatcher observed, "We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend...