Word: beirutization
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...speaker of parliament a Shi'ite. Such an arrangement no longer appears to be satisfactory to the Shi'ites. Demographic changes, particularly the influx of large numbers of Shi'ites from southern Lebanon following the Israeli invasions of 1978 and 1982, have upset the political balance in West Beirut. Much of the predominantly Muslim half of the city, as a result, has been carved up between the Shi'ites and the Druze...
...news bulletin on Lebanese state radio late last week was cryptic and vague, perhaps intentionally so: Beirut judicial authorities would prosecute three of the most wanted men in America, the hijackers of TWA Flight 847. The Lebanese identified the two Shi'ite Muslims who seized Flight 847 and murdered U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem as Ahmed Gharbiyeh and Ali Youness. The third man, Ali Atwa, failed to board the plane in Greece, but joined the other two hijackers in Algiers after the Athens government released him in exchange for Greek hostages on board the Boeing...
Administration officials were considering the options of putting a bounty on the hijackers' heads or planning some kind of retaliation. Washington had attempted to "isolate" Beirut airport with an international boycott. But only British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed any sympathy for the proposal, and even she said she would take no action unless other West European nations went along. So far, none have. The Lebanese government, however, last week promised to tighten security at the airport...
...After more than eleven hours of talks, Shi'ite, Sunni and Druze leaders announced a 16-point agreement. The accord was significant in that for the first time it proposed power sharing between Muslims and Christians on an equal basis. The agreement also promised to tighten security at the Beirut airport, a pledge that received warm approval from the Reagan Administration...
...fare much better than any of the other attempts to broker peace in Lebanon. Several Christian Lebanese leaders, who were not invited to attend the Damascus meeting, have already attacked the plan. "Lebanon's future cannot be determined by Muslims alone," warned al Amal, a Christian newspaper in East Beirut...