Word: beirutization
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...President Jose Sarney sought to compare Rio's plight favorably with another land's ten-year civil war. "It's not possible that they are killing more people in Rio than in the unfortunate, cruel and unjust civil war in Lebanon," said Sarney. Perhaps. But no one ever claimed Beirut was a Carnival...
...Christians in the Phalangist militia were tacitly supporting a peace agreement giving authority to President Elias Hrawi, Aoun last week ordered his troops to attack Phalangist barracks. When the Phalangists struck back, the result was a civil war within a civil war that turned the Christian enclave of East Beirut into a free-fire zone. By week's end more than 140 civilians were dead...
...desk are not actually on the firing line, they sometimes find themselves at least within earshot. "When a deadline looms," says Jean White, a veteran of the desk since 1975, "there is a lot of testiness both in New York and in the bureaus." During a violent night in Beirut in 1984, a correspondent called White, asking that he be allowed to dictate over the telephone his answers to questions posed by a senior editor, rather than send them by telex. Consumed by the deadline rush, White snapped, "Can't you get to a machine? It really would make things...
...Manila's financial district squeaked away from a showdown that might have turned it into a Southeast Asian Beirut, the President essayed a show of strength by reaching for the People Power that brought her to office. Still, in tacit disobedience to Aquino's stand against a negotiated end to hostilities, her military did not so much quell the coup as reconcile with those who had come closer than ever to unseating her. Even before the latest coup ended, plots were being hatched for the next stage of the rebellion, one the planners are certain will bring about Aquino...
...leftists' new offensive shows some staying power, as critics in Washington raise more questions about the murder of six Jesuit priests. A President is assassinated in Beirut...