Word: beirutization
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What makes officials like Oakley reluctant to engage in wholesale disarmament is the ghosts of Lebanon. "In Beirut the people responsible for the policy didn't understand the political situation," he said. "They didn't realize that in doing what we did, we became a combatant." When a narrowly defined military role conflicted with political demands, the Marines came to be seen as everyone's enemy, which led to the 1983 bombing in Beirut that killed 241 servicemen...
...published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the younger you are, the greater the chance that you have suffered from clinical depression sometime in your life. The investigation combined 12 local and regional studies made during the 1980s in such places as the U.S., Taiwan, Munich, Paris, Beirut and Christchurch, New Zealand. In virtually every case, people born before 1905 had a lower rate of depression than those born between 1905 and 1914, who in turn had a lower rate than those born between...
...depression rates vary widely from place to place, and there are age groups in which the trend jumps upward or even temporarily downward. In Beirut, for example, periods of especially severe political unrest were paralleled by a sharp rise in depression. Overall, though, the trend is steadily upward in every age group. The cause? Researchers suggest it might have to do with the breakdown of families, or increased drug use, or the fact that more people are living in cities. The truth is they simply don't know, which is depressing in itself...
...Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Houghton moved to the U.S. at the age of 5, He lived in several places, including Cambridge, and settled in Washington...
...hiser three decades in the agency's clandestine service, he was imbued with the shadow-world ethos of the cold war. His generation of CIA officers perceived themselves in an intensely personal crusade against the Evil Empire. George valiantly fought these looking-glass battles in extraordinarily dangerous assignments in Beirut and Athens, where his predecessor had been assassinated. It was a covert existence in which professional spies like George routinely broke other nations' laws. It was part of their job to lie about their identities, their missions, their actions -- but not to their own superiors. And especially not to Congress...