Word: beirutization
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TIME'S stories on the climax of the Beirut hostage crisis [NATION, July 8] were exceptional. But you failed to mention one possible method of preventing terrorist acts against Americans in the Middle East: travel to the region must be severely restricted, if not stopped altogether. David S. Draper Arcata, Calif...
...having licked the Big C, he becomes an even more formidable political figure," says White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. To be sure, Reagan's stock with the public is already high and likely to go higher. His favorable rating rose from 57% in May to 66% after the Beirut hostages were released. If he recovers rapidly, his public persona will gain even more luster...
...Treasury aides, first-term holdovers and recalled Reaganauts, has acted effectively in crises. It is credited with preventing much long-term damage from the President's visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, once the decision to go had been made, and managing the White House response to the Beirut hostage taking adroitly. Indeed, some of the Capitol Hill criticism of Regan seems to reflect primarily congressional nostalgia for Baker's assiduous wooing of legislators, which Regan has neither the temperament nor the inclination to duplicate...
...Sandinista revolution, saying that it would be held responsible for future attacks against Americans in the region. The State Department did not say why the first offer of a reward came in response to the Salvadoran shooting rather than to the hijacking of the TWA passenger jet to Beirut last month, after which a reward was discussed but never offered. ESPIONAGE A Family of Smugglers...
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...