Word: beirutization
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...Police investigators charged Patrick Schaller, 29, and Pierre Bessonat, 30, two law-enforcement officers stationed in Mulhouse, a town in northeastern France, with using the diplomatic mailbag for the illegal purchase and importation of arms from Lebanon; both formerly held security posts in France's embassy in Beirut. At least a dozen men had been implicated in the arms-trafficking affair, including embassy chief of security Jean- Claude Labourdette, believed to be the operation's kingpin...
Schaller and Bessonat admitted that they had bought arms on Beirut's hyperactive black market. Once safely shipped to France, the weapons were allegedly resold to local gangsters for many times the purchase price...
...rifles erected cobblestone barricades, ignited piles of tires and engaged in sporadic gunfire. From some trenches flew the red-and-black Sandinista flag, from others Nicaragua's blue-and-white flag. At least four civilians died and scores were wounded. Fretted a local businessman: "This must be how Beirut began...
...they are innocent. But for most, the only chance to get out will come when someone makes a deal to swap them for Israeli and SLA soldiers -- and probably some of the Western hostages held by Hizballah. And Hizballah is not considered likely to free the remaining hostages in Beirut until the gates of El Khiam swing open. There is no sign of a break in the impasse...
...Germany. He made his first visit to the U.S. in 1952 as an exchange student in Bronson, Mich., and later graduated from the University of Michigan. Prager joined TIME in 1965 as a correspondent in the Hong Kong bureau and has worked in Vietnam, New York City, San Francisco, Beirut and Madrid. He oversaw the Germany issue and, in a story based on conversations with eleven former classmates, looked at how Germans of his generation have fared. "They have no heroes," he says, "but they are proud that their country has become a mature democracy so firmly embedded...