Word: beirutization
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...father announced that his son would get the keys to the kingdom, the drama was heightened when the famous clock on the Times Building suddenly went dark. Now it is ticking again, as Sulzberger gallops out of the building, talking about the new plant, covering Brooklyn as thoroughly as Beirut, the outer suburbs to conquer, Pulitzers to win. Without a sigh -- he is not a sigher -- he turns down 43rd Street to catch the bus, and says, "I'm only 40. I've got time...
...through multinational support. It's appropriate for us to support the airlift to Sarajevo. If we do get involved further there, it certainly ought to be through a U.N. aegis and not on our own, and we need to be very careful that we don't have a European Beirut...
...easy to forget just who Rabin is. He is, after all, the former Defense Minister who ordered his army to use "force, strength and blows" to stop the intifadeh. He is the ex-general who, during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, proposed tightening up the siege on Beirut by cutting off food and water to the populace. This reserved, taciturn man is no tender heart, no dove...
Bill's reputation for speed and accuracy made him the natural choice for one of our toughest writing assignments ever: the crash cover he produced on a Sunday in 1983 when Shi'ite terrorists blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. While our idled presses around the world waited for Bill's copy, he absorbed stacks of correspondents' reports and calmly turned out one of the most dramatic stories in the magazine's history. It was Bill Smith at his most professional...
...Hanan, cushioned in a wealthy, educated, upper-class family, the youngest of five daughters of a respected physician, had a political awareness that was largely theoretical until the day in June 1967 when Israel took over her hometown of Ramallah. She was a student at the American University in Beirut, then a hotbed of Arab nationalism. She joined in eagerly: "I was going to change the world." But on that June day she heard rumors that her house was being shelled, her parents were perhaps dead, her town occupied. As she stood in a long line at the Red Cross...