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...prime minister, who leaves for Washington Tuesday, continues to denounce Yasser Arafat as irrelevant and insist there will be no negotiations until Arafat does more to stop Palestinian militants attacking Israelis. Last week he even went so far as to publicly regret not killing Arafat when Israeli forces captured Beirut in 1982. But even amidst the bellicose rhetoric, Sharon is still reaching out, meeting last week with aides of the Palestinian leader he has under virtual house arrest in Ramallah...
...GLOBALIZATION THEORY To the always irreverent papers in Beirut, the situation smelled of sweet, sweet irony: the President of the U.S. nearly killed by the product of his country's own cultural imperialism. The Kifah al-Arabi daily called the snack in question a "terrorist biscuit," and noted that "this incident highlighted the harmful effects of the fast-food products promoted by the 'globalization' of the United States...
...Iranian coast in an operation headed by Lebanese Hajj Bassem, an assistant to the notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyah. A leader of the Lebanese militia Hizballah, Mughniyah has close ties to Iran and is blamed by the Americans for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Israeli intelligence tells TIME the captured captain of the ship, Omar Akawi, a maritime adviser to the Palestinian Transportation Ministry, identified a photo of Bassem as that of the man who delivered the cargo. Akawi also confessed to Israeli interrogators that the weapons were intended...
Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine has agreed to chair the International Advisory Council to the American University of Beirut (AUB), according to an announcement made by the AUB last week...
...American University of Beirut is a private, independent, non-sectarian institution with an international student body of 6,100 that operates under a charter from the state of New York...